In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
REGALS
Noun
regals
plural of regal
Anagrams
• Aglers, Glaser, Larges, Ragles, Slager, ergals, glares, lagers, larges
Source: Wiktionary
REGAL
Re"gal (r"gal), a. Etym: [L. regalis, fr. rex, regis, a king. See Royal, and cf. Rajah, Realm, Regalia.]
Definition: Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway. "The regal title." Shak. He made a scorn of his regal oath. Milton.
Syn.
– Kingly; royal. See Kingly.
Re"gal, n. Etym: [F. régale, It. regale. CF. Rigoll.] (Mus.)
Definition: A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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LEFT
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
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