In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
SOFTPASTE
Etymology
Adjective
softpaste (not comparable)
(of ceramics) Having a body formulation that combines clay and frit, mainly used in the production of decorative figures and domestic wares in 18th-century Europe; also sometimes applied to other soft porcelains such as bone china.
Coordinate terms
• hard-paste
Anagrams
• postfeast
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OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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