In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PLETHORAS
Noun
plethoras
plural of plethora
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• Astrophel, trapholes
Source: Wiktionary
PLETHORA
Pleth"o*ra, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Pleonasm.]
1. Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.
2. State of being overfull; excess; superabundance. He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination. Jeffrey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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