In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
STICHOMETRIES
Noun
stichometries
plural of stichometry
Source: Wiktionary
STICHOMETRY
Stich*om"e*try, n. Etym: [Gr. -metry.]
1. Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.
2. Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, - - a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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27 November 2024
NAUSEATING
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
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