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Figaro

  1. A scheming Spanish barber who appears as a character in eighteenth-century French plays. The operas The Marriage of Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , and The Barber of Seville, by Gioacchino Rossini, are about Figaro.


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Example Sentences

VICTORIA VALENTINO (1970) The former Playboy Playmate met Cosby in 1970 at Café Figaro, a restaurant the comedian co-owned.

A few weeks later, Valentino and her pal, an aspiring actress named Meg Foster, met Cosby again at Café Figaro.

She says she worked at Café Figaro, a Los Angeles restaurant co-owned by Cosby, and one day he offered to give her a ride home.

If Hollande is elected, Le Figaro stresses, Royal is openly interested in being named Speaker of the House.

The pro-Sarkozy conservative daily Le Figaro calls Royal “a sharpshooter.”

Alphonse determined to live by his pen, and presently obtained introductions to the "Figaro."

He then said that a famous editor, of the Figaro, I think, had once said that every man had one newspaper article in him.

Susanna in the Nozze di Figaro is a familiar example of Colombina in her latest dramatic development.

The word, chauffeur, the Paris Figaro tells us, was known long before the advent of automobiles or locomotives.

She had called for the "Figaro," to see the passenger list of the steamer.

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