In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
AMBAGIOUS
circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
(adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; “had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression”; “A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.”-T.S.Eliot; (‘ambagious’ is archaic)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
ambagious (comparative more ambagious, superlative most ambagious)
Roundabout; vague.
Indefinite.
Source: Wiktionary
Am*ba"gious, a. Etym: [L. ambagiosus.]
Definition: Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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