In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PHILOSOPHE
Etymology
Noun
philosophe (plural philosophes)
Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
(pejorative) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster.
Source: Wiktionary
Phil"o*sophe, n. Etym: [F., a philosopher.]
Definition: A philosophaster; a philosopher. [R.] Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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