In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TRISTATE
Etymology
Adjective
tristate (not comparable)
Having, or pertaining to, three distinct states.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a region in the United States where three state borders come to a single point.
Noun
tristate (plural tristates)
(programming) A variable, etc. that can take any of three distinct values.
(often capitalized) The area in some regions of the United States where three state borders come to a single point.
Anagrams
• attirest, attrites, rattiest, tartiest, titrates
Source: Wiktionary
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