In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WATSON
Watson, James Watson, James Dewey Watson
(noun) United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)
Watson, John Broadus Watson
(noun) United States psychologist considered the founder of behavioristic psychology (1878-1958)
Watson, Thomas Augustus Watson
(noun) United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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