In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
VICISSITUDES
Noun
vicissitudes
plural of vicissitude
Source: Wiktionary
VICISSITUDE
Vi*cis"si*tude, n. Etym: [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude. See Vicarious.]
1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. Milton.
2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation. This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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