In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MILLCAKES
MILLCAKE
Mill"-cake`, n.
Definition: The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SINGSONG
(verb) move as if accompanied by a singsong; “The porters singsonged the travellers’ luggage up the mountain”
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