In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
gulfweed, sargassum, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum
(noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sargassum (plural sargassums)
Any of many brown algae of the genus Sargassum; gulfweed
Source: Wiktionary
Sar*gas"sum, n. Etym: [NL.]
Definition: A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 March 2025
(adjective) celebrated in fable or legend; “the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox”; “legendary exploits of Jesse James”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.