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

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

Her 76th and final show will not be a "retrospective, but full of nods" to her past work, she told Madame Figaro magazine in early January.

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

In a letter published in Le Figaro in 2023, Depardieu denied the allegations, writing: "Never, ever, have I abused a woman."

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025

A letter to Le Figaro had even specifically called for the investigation to focus on the workers who had put the Mona Lisa behind glass.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day