In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
PACINIAN
Pa*cin"i*an, a. (Anat.)
Definition: Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century.
Pacinian corpuscles, small oval bodies terminating some of the minute branches of the sensory nerves in the integument and other parts of the body. They are supposed to be tactile organs.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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