In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SURBASEMENT
Etymology
Noun
surbasement (plural surbasements)
(architecture) The trait of any arch or vault that describes a portion of an ellipse.
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