In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
PORTEGUE
Por"te*gue, n.
Definition: See Portague. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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