In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PARROTFISH
parrotfish, polly fish, pollyfish
(noun) gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
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Etymology
Noun
parrotfish (plural parrotfishes or parrotfish)
Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.
Source: Wiktionary
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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