In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SWEETWOODS
Noun
sweetwoods
plural of sweetwood
Source: Wiktionary
SWEETWOOD
Sweet"wood`, n. (Bot.) (a) The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.) (b) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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