In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MANGINESS
shabbiness, seediness, manginess, sleaziness
(noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
manginess (uncountable)
The condition of being mangy
Source: Wiktionary
Man"gi*ness, n. Etym: [From Mangy.]
Definition: The condition or quality of being mangy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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