In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
SPIDERWEB
Etymology
Noun
spiderweb (plural spiderwebs)
The net-like construct of a spider containing sticky strands to catch prey.
Something that resembles a spider's web in being mesh-like, entrapping, or fragile.
Hypernyms
• web
Verb
spiderweb (third-person singular simple present spiderwebs, present participle spiderwebbing, simple past and past participle spiderwebbed)
(transitive) To connect or cover as if with spiderwebs.
Anagrams
• Web spider
Source: Wiktionary
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RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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