In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SOLDO
Etymology
Noun
soldo (plural soldi or soldos)
(historical) An Italian coin, formerly one-twentieth of a lira.
Anagrams
• dolos, slood
Source: Wiktionary
Sol"do, n.; pl. Soldi. Etym: [It. See Sou.]
Definition: A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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