In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PARATONIC
Etymology 1
Adjective
paratonic (comparative more paratonic, superlative most paratonic)
(medicine) Relating to paratonia.
Etymology 2
Adjective
paratonic (not comparable)
(linguistics) Relating to paratones.
Etymology 3
Adjective
paratonic (comparative more paratonic, superlative most paratonic)
Retarding a plant's growth.
Anagrams
• anatropic, apocritan
Source: Wiktionary
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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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