In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SIGEH
sigeh
(noun) a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years; “sigeh legally wraps premarital sex in an Islamic cloak”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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