In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
OVERBROW
Etymology
Verb
overbrow (third-person singular simple present overbrows, present participle overbrowing, simple past and past participle overbrowed)
(poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*brow", v. t.
Definition: To hang over like a brow; to impend over. [Poetic] Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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