In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SPLENTS
Noun
splents
plural of splent
Source: Wiktionary
SPLENT
Splent, n.
1. See Splent.
2. See Splent coal, below. Splent coal, an inferior kind of cannel coal from Scotch collieries; -- called also splent, splint, and splint coal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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