In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MONOCLED
bespectacled, monocled, spectacled
(adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass; “a bespectacled grandmother”; “the monocled gentleman”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
monocled (not comparable)
Wearing a monocle.
Source: Wiktionary
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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