In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LONGLIST
Etymology
Noun
longlist (plural longlists)
An initial, relatively long, shortlist, from which a further shortlist is selected.
Verb
longlist (third-person singular simple present longlists, present participle longlisting, simple past and past participle longlisted)
(transitive) To add to a longlist; to consider prior to a later and narrower shortlist.
Anagrams
• tollings
Source: Wiktionary
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
Coffee Trivia
