In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ORTHOPEDY
Noun
orthopedy (uncountable)
Archaic form of orthopedics.
Source: Wiktionary
Or*thop"e*dy, n. Etym: [Ortho- + Gr. (Med.)
Definition: The art or practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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