In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TRIVIUMS
Noun
triviums
plural of trivium
Source: Wiktionary
TRIVIUM
Triv"i*um, n. Etym: [LL. See Trivial.]
1. The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.
Note: The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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