In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LINTER
Etymology 1
Noun
linter (countable and uncountable, plural linters)
The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
(countable) A machine for removing these fibres.
Synonym: delinter
Etymology 2
Noun
linter (plural linters)
(computing) A program or algorithm that performs linting.
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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