In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WASTRELS
Noun
wastrels
plural of wastrel
Anagrams
• wartless, wrastles
Source: Wiktionary
WASTREL
Wast"rel, n.
1. Any waste thing or substance; as: (a) Waste land or common land. [Obs.] Carew. (b) A profligate. [Prov. Eng.] (c) A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.]
2. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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