In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
UPMAKING
Verb
upmaking
present participle of upmake
Noun
upmaking (usually uncountable, plural upmakings)
(nautical, historical) Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.
(printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.
Anagrams
• making up
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(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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