In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
Pekin
Obsolete form of Peking.
A city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois.
A hamlet in New York.
A city and village in North Dakota.
Pekin (countable and uncountable, plural Pekins)
A type of patterned silk.
• Knipe
Source: Wiktionary
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.