In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
RESHUFFLE
reshuffle, reshuffling
(noun) shuffling again; “the gambler demanded a reshuffle”
reshuffle
(noun) a redistribution of something; “there was a reshuffle of cabinet officers”
reshuffle
(verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people; “The new Prime Minister reshuffled his cabinet”
reshuffle
(verb) shuffle again; “So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
reshuffle (third-person singular simple present reshuffles, present participle reshuffling, simple past and past participle reshuffled)
to shuffle something again, especially playing cards
to reorganize or rearrange something, especially government posts
Noun
reshuffle (plural reshuffles)
an instance of reshuffling, a reorganization
Source: Wiktionary
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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