EXPISCATORY

Adjective

expiscatory (not comparable)

(archaic) Tending to fish out; searching.

Source: Wiktionary


Ex*pis"ca*to*ry, a.

Definition: Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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PROSCENIUM

(noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)


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In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.

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