In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
QUOIF
Noun
quoif (plural quoifs)
Obsolete form of coif.
A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel / Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif! / Thou art a guard too wanton for the head / Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit.
Source: Wiktionary
Quoif, n. & v. t.
Definition: See Coif. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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