In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TOURS
Tours
(noun) an industrial city in western France on the Loire River
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
tours
plural of tour
Verb
tours
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tour
Anagrams
• Rusto, Stour, roust, routs, stour, sutor, torus
Proper noun
Tours
The capital of the Indre-et-Loire département, in Centre, in France.
Anagrams
• Rusto, Stour, roust, routs, stour, sutor, torus
Source: Wiktionary
TOUR
Tour, n. Etym: [F. tour. See Tower.]
Definition: A tower. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tour, n. Etym: [F. tour. See Turn, v. t.]
1. A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England. The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour. Milton.
2. A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Obs.] Blackmore.
3. (Mil.)
Definition: anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
Syn.
– Journey; excursion. See Journey.
Tour, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toured; p. pr. & vb. n. Touring.]
Definition: To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country. T. Hughes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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