In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TYLOSIS
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tylosis (plural tyloses)
a thickening of the skin, especially of the eyelids
a balloonlike growth in a plant cavity; a tylose
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Ty*lo"sis, n.; pl. Tyloses. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells. Goodale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”
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