Figaro

Cultural  

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

I recently became part of a face-off between two opposite-running Coco bots on the small strip of sidewalk in front of Cafe Figaro.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Rumours of a love affair have been circulating since January when the pair were seen together at an event in Paris to mark the 200th anniversary of Le Figaro newspaper.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

He joined Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal in 2002 after three years at French dailies Le Figaro and les Echos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

"It’s been a fairly conservative season, without any incredible propositions," Matthieu Morge Zucconi, head of men’s fashion at France's Le Figaro newspaper, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

All but one of his famous, operas is literally Italian, from The Marriage of Figaro and Cosi fan tutte to La Clemenza di Tito and Don Giovanni.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall