In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PAMPAS
pampas
(noun) the vast grassy plains of northern Argentina
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
Pampas pl (plural only)
Alternative form of pampas
Anagrams
• MAPPAs, appams
Etymology
Noun
pampas (plural pampas)
The extensive plains of South America south of the Amazon.
Anagrams
• MAPPAs, appams
Source: Wiktionary
Pam"pas, n. pl. Etym: [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.]
Definition: Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. Pampas cat (Zoöl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat.
– Pampas deer (Zoöl.), a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus, or Blastocerus, campestris).
– Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
22 September 2024
SPRINGBOARD
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
Coffee Trivia
