In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MATINEES
Noun
matinees
plural of matinee
Verb
matinees
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of matinee
Anagrams
• Manistee, etamines, miseaten, seminate
Source: Wiktionary
MATINEE
Mat`i*née", n. Etym: [F., from matin. See Matin.]
Definition: A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirÉe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ACCURATE
(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”
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