In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SANATORIUM
Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit
(noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum
sanatorium, sanatarium, sanitarium
(noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sanatorium (plural sanatoriums or sanatoria)
An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.
Source: Wiktionary
San`a*to"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL. See Sanatory.]
Definition: An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANYMORE
(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”
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