In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
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PLASHY
Plash"y, a. Etym: [From 1st Plash.]
1. Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth.
2. Specked, as if plashed with color. Keats.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear; “the frenzied elephant was in musth”
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