In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WYNS
Noun
wyns
plural of wyn
Source: Wiktionary
WYN
Wyn, Wynn, n. Also Wen. [AS. wen.]
Definition: One of the runes adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w.
X.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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