In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
RHINOLOPHINE
Rhi*nol"o*phine, a. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PARSEC
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
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