In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PRESSION
Noun
pression (countable and uncountable, plural pressions)
(rare) Pressure or an act of applying pressure.
Anagrams
• Nisperos, nisperos, poriness, ropiness, sinopers
Source: Wiktionary
Pres"sion, n. Etym: [L. pressio: cf. F. pression. See 4th Press.]
1. The act of pressing; pressure. Sir I. Newton.
2. (Cartesian Philos.)
Definition: An endeavor to move.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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