In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TENTATION
Etymology
Noun
tentation (countable and uncountable, plural tentations)
Obsolete form of temptation.
(obsolete) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.
Anagrams
• Antonetti, attention
Source: Wiktionary
Ten*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. tentatio: cf. F. tentation. See Temptation.]
1. Trial; temptation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
2. (Mech.)
Definition: A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. Knight.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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