In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PARTIALITIES
Noun
partialities
plural of partiality
Source: Wiktionary
PARTIALITY
Par`ti*al"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. partialité.]
1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.
2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting. Roget.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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