In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ODORS
Noun
odors
plural of odor
Anagrams
• Ordos, Roods, Sodor, doors, dorso-, ordos, roods, soord
Source: Wiktionary
ODOR
O"dor, n. Etym: [OE. odor, odour, OF. odor, odour, F. odeur, fr. L. odor; akin to olere to smell, Gr. Olfactory, Osmium, Ozone, Redolent.] [Written also odour.]
Definition: Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume. Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around. Spenser. To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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