In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SERAPHINE
Etymology
Proper noun
Seraphine
A female given name from Latin.
Anagrams
• Hesperian, hesperian
Noun
seraphine (plural seraphines)
(music) An early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.
Anagrams
• Hesperian, hesperian
Source: Wiktionary
Ser"a*phine, n. Etym: [From Seraph.] (Mus.)
Definition: A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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