In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
PROLEGATE
Pro"leg`ate (; 48), n. Etym: [L. prolegatus; pro for + legatus legate.] (Rom. Hist.)
Definition: The deputy or substitute for a legate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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