In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
ABLOW
Etymology 1
Adjective
ablow (not comparable)
(obsolete, postpositive) Blossoming, blooming, in blossom.
(dated, postpositive) Blowing or being blown; windy.
Usage notes
• Like most adjectives formed from this sense of a-, ablow never serves as an attributive premodifier; one can say “the flowers were ablow”, “ablow, the flowers […] ”, and even “ […] the flowers ablow […] ”, but not *“ […] the ablow flowers”.
Etymology 2
Preposition
ablow
(Scotland) Below.
Anagrams
• blaow, wobla
Source: Wiktionary
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