In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MACABRE
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
(adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; “ghastly wounds”; “the grim aftermath of the bombing”; “the grim task of burying the victims”; “a grisly murder”; “gruesome evidence of human sacrifice”; “macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages”; “macabre tortures conceived by madmen”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
macabre (comparative more macabre, superlative most macabre)
Representing or personifying death.
Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
Synonyms: ghastly, horrifying, shocking, terrifying
Anagrams
• carbeam
Source: Wiktionary
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