In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
POLYSYNTHESES
Noun
polysyntheses
plural of polysynthesis
Source: Wiktionary
POLYSYNTHESIS
Pol`y*syn"the*sis, n. Etym: [Poly- + synthesis.]
1. The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.
2. (Philol.)
Definition: The formation of a word by the combination of several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination. Latham.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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