In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PANTALETTES
Noun
pantalettes pl (plural only)
(historical) A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.
(historical) A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.
Source: Wiktionary
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(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”
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