In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
Meaw, n.
Definition: The sea mew. [Obs.] Spenser.
Meaw, v. i.
Definition: See Mew, to cry as a cat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.