In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
UNSHROUD
Etymology
Verb
unshroud (third-person singular simple present unshrouds, present participle unshrouding, simple past and past participle unshrouded)
(transitive) To remove a shroud from; to uncover.
Source: Wiktionary
Un*shroud" (, v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + shroud.]
Definition: To remove the shroud from; to uncover. P. Fletcher.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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