In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LINGUAE
LINGUA
tongue, lingua, glossa, clapper
(noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
linguae
plural of lingua
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• unagile
Source: Wiktionary
LINGUA
Lin"gua, n.; pl. Linguæ. Etym: [L., the tongue.] (Zoöl.) (a) A tongue. (b) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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