In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PHONINESS
Etymology
Noun
phoniness (plural phoninesses)
The condition or quality of being phony or fake.
Antonyms
• authenticity
Source: Wiktionary
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13 November 2024
OSTENSIBLE
(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so; “for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent”; “the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies”; “the ostensible truth of their theories”; “his seeming honesty”
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