In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
UPDIVE
Etymology
Verb
updive (third-person singular simple present updives, present participle updiving, simple past and past participle updived or updove)
(archaic, intransitive, rare) To spring upward; to rise
Source: Wiktionary
Up*dive", v. i.
Definition: To spring upward; to rise. [R.] Davies (Microcosmos).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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