In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SILKSTOCKING
Silk"-stock`ing, a.
Definition: Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.
[They] will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers. Jefferson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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