Figaro

[ (fig-uh-roh) ]

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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a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.

a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; spendthrift.

a well-intentioned but naive and often ineffectual social or political reformer.

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Example sentences from the Web for Figaro

He began by painting in the Figaro, with great graphic power, the miseries of ushers in provincial schools.
The Strand Magazine, Vol. 1 - No. 1,|Various
M. Gaston Deschamps, in the usually ribald Figaro, claimed much of the credit of this innovation for himself.
Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1|William Walton
They say the Times' account is the best—the Figaro also very good (Wolff).
Letters of a Diplomat's Wife|Mary King Waddington
I had not seen him or heard of him for years, when, yesterday, I read the announcement of his death in the Figaro.'
Grey Roses|Henry Harland

But so would Figaro and Gil Blas have said, and on exactly the same grounds.
Froude's History of England|Charles Kingsley

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