In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
NOODLEDOM
Etymology
Noun
noodledom (usually uncountable, plural noodledoms)
(colloquial, dated) foolishness
Noodledom was a deadly poison. An over-dose of it would destroy a whole nation, and he had known a recent case where it had caused the death of many thousand men.
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PATH
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