In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
STAYSTITCH
Etymology
Noun
staystitch (plural staystitches)
A kind of straight stitch through a single layer, mainly used to stabilize curves.
Verb
staystitch (third-person singular simple present staystitches, present participle staystitching, simple past and past participle staystitched)
To work this kind of stitch.
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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