In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WINDFALL
boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce
(noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); “the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line”
windfall
(noun) fruit that has fallen from the tree
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
windfall (plural windfalls)
Something that has been blown down by the wind.
A fruit that has fallen from a tree naturally, as from wind.
(figuratively) A sudden large benefit; especially, a sudden or unexpected large amount of money, as from lottery or sweepstakes winnings or an unexpected inheritance or gift.
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
Wind"fall`, n.
1. Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc. "They became a windfall upon the sudden." Bacon.
2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain. He had a mighty windfall out of doubt. B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HABIT
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