In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
UNSHADOW
Etymology
Verb
unshadow (third-person singular simple present unshadows, present participle unshadowing, simple past and past participle unshadowed)
(transitive) To free from shadow; to allow to become illuminated.
(transitive, computing) To combine (a password file) with its corresponding "shadow file" in order to facilitate cracking of the passwords.
Source: Wiktionary
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