In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SHORTAGES
Noun
shortages
plural of shortage
Source: Wiktionary
SHORTAGE
Short"age, n.
Definition: Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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