In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SCRAPBOOK
scrapbook
(noun) an album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
scrapbook (plural scrapbooks)
a book, similar to a notebook or journal, in which personal or family memorabilia and photos are collected and arranged
Verb
scrapbook (third-person singular simple present scrapbooks, present participle scrapbooking, simple past and past participle scrapbooked)
to create scrapbooks
Source: Wiktionary
Scrap"book`, n.
Definition: A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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