In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
STEREOGRAPHIES
Noun
stereographies
plural of stereography
Source: Wiktionary
STEREOGRAPHY
Ste`re*og"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Stereo- + graphy: cf. F. stéréographie.]
Definition: The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.
Note: By cutting pieces of cardboard, or other suitable material, in the forms represented in the cut, folding them along the lines indicated, and joining their edges, the five regular solids may be formed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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