In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WISTERIA
wisteria, wistaria
(noun) any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
wisteria (countable and uncountable, plural wisterias)
Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.
Source: Wiktionary
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