In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WILDLAND
Etymology
Noun
wildland (countable and uncountable, plural wildlands)
land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
Usage notes
• The singular form wildland is commonly used in noun compounds, either attributively as in wildland fire, wildland ecosystem, wildland preservation and so on, or via hyphenation as in wildland-urban interface (WUI). Otherwise, this term is ordinarily found in its plural form wildlands.
Synonyms
• wasteland
• wilderness
Hypernyms
• land
Source: Wiktionary
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