In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PEARLINGS
Etymology 1
Noun
pearlings
plural of pearling
Etymology 2
Noun
pearlings pl (plural only)
(Scotland) A kind of lace of silk or thread.
Anagrams
• espringal, graplines, presignal, rapelings, relapsing, spanglier
Source: Wiktionary
Pearl"ins, Pearl"ings, n. pl. Etym: [Prob. a corruption of purflings. See Purfle.]
Definition: A kind of lace of silk or thread. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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