In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WEDGESHELL
Wedge"-shell`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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