In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
RESETTLEMENT
resettlement, relocation
(noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
resettlement (countable and uncountable, plural resettlements)
the transportation of a group of people to a new settlement
Source: Wiktionary
Re*set"tle*ment (-ment), n.
Definition: Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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