In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TRENTALS
Noun
trentals
plural of trental
Anagrams
• slattern
Source: Wiktionary
TRENTAL
Tren"tal, n. Etym: [LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.]
1. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. "Their trentals and their shrifts." Spenser.
2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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