In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
STRIDENCE
shrillness, stridence, stridency
(noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
stridence (countable and uncountable, plural stridences)
the quality of being strident
Synonyms
• stridency
Anagrams
• cisterned, incrested, tenrecids
Source: Wiktionary
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