In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SPLASHBACK
Etymology
Noun
splashback (countable and uncountable, plural splashbacks)
(uncountable, countable) Splashes of liquid, especially noxious liquid, rebounding from a surface.
(countable) A shield of an easily-cleaned material, such as those placed behind an oven top, kitchen sink, and industrial facilities, construction sites etc, in order to catch splashes of liquid.
Synonyms
• (easily cleaned shield): backsplash
Anagrams
• backsplash
Source: Wiktionary
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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