In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ODDITY
curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity
(noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet
(noun) a strange attitude or habit
oddity, oddness
(noun) eccentricity that is not easily explained
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
oddity (plural oddities)
An odd or strange thing or opinion.
A strange person; an oddball.
Strangeness.
Synonyms
• (strange thing): irregularity, outlier; see also anomaly
• (strange opinion)
• (strange person): kook, oddball, odd duck, weirdo; see also strange person
• (strangeness): oddness, rumness, weirdness; see also strangeness
Source: Wiktionary
Odd"i*ty, n.; pl. Oddities (.
1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like. That infinitude of oddities in him. Sterne.
2. That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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