In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PORPHYROID
Etymology
Noun
porphyroid (countable and uncountable, plural porphyroids)
(mineral) A crystalline and schistose rock containing porphyritic crystals of feldspar.
Source: Wiktionary
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
9 January 2025
PRESENTATION
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
Coffee Trivia
