In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
MONOCLED
bespectacled, monocled, spectacled
(adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass; “a bespectacled grandmother”; “the monocled gentleman”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
monocled (not comparable)
Wearing a monocle.
Source: Wiktionary
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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