In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
regest (plural regests)
(obsolete) A register.
regest (third-person singular simple present regests, present participle regesting, simple past and past participle regested)
(obsolete, transitive) To throw back.
• Geters, Steger, Strege, egrets, greets, regets
Source: Wiktionary
Re*gest" (r*jst"), n. Etym: [L. regesta, pl.: cf. OF. regestes, pl. See Register.]
Definition: A register. [Obs.] Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.