In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
ABBREVIATORS
Noun
abbreviators
plural of abbreviator
Source: Wiktionary
ABBREVIATOR
Ab*bre"vi*a`tor, n. Etym: [LL.: cf. F. abbréviateur.]
1. One who abbreviates or shortens.
2. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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