In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PLUSES
Noun
pluses
plural of plus
Verb
pluses
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plus
Anagrams
• pulses, pusles, pussel
Source: Wiktionary
PLUS
Plus, a. Etym: [L., more; akin to Gr. full. See Full, a., and cf. Più, Pleonasm.]
1. (Math.)
Definition: More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to Ant: minus.
2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual. Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power. Emerson. Plus sign (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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