In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MERENGUE
Etymology
Noun
merengue (countable and uncountable, plural merengues)
(music, uncountable) A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.
A song performed in this style.
A dance to this style of music.
Verb
merengue (third-person singular simple present merengues, present participle merenguing, simple past and past participle merengued)
(intransitive) To dance to merengue music.
Source: Wiktionary
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