In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TAWNEY
Tawney, Richard Henry Tawney
(noun) English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Tawney (plural Tawneys)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tawney is the 17176th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1649 individuals. Tawney is most common among White (92.78%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Weyant
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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