In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MERCHET
Etymology
Noun
merchet (plural merchets)
(obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.
Source: Wiktionary
Mar"chet, Mer"chet, n. Etym: [LL. marcheta; of uncertain origin.]
Definition: In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals
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