| 释义 |
‖ pifferaro|piffeˈraro|
Pl. pifferari.
[It.]
A performer on the piffero.
1854Thackeray Newcomes I. xxii. 212 A Contadina and a Trasteverino dancing at the door of a Locanda to the music of a Pifferaro. 1860Once a Week 14 July 71/2 Three of the pifferari whom you find at Christmas time in such numbers in the Piazza di Spagna at Rome. 1870Queen Victoria Let. 6 June in R. Fulford Your Dear Letter (1971) 281 Imagine our astonishment at seeing in the village [sc. Balmoral] this morning an Italian pifferaro..and two boys dancing. 1920Punch 30 June 510/3 The local condettieri, pifferari, banditti and lazzaroni. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Mar. 228/4 The charming shepherds who came to the cities from the Abruzzi to play their bagpipes in front of the wayside shrines—the pifferari. 1977Gramophone June 41/3 He also draws a marvellously keen, edgy sound from piccolo and oboe in the Serenade, for all the world like a pifferaro squealing on the Abruzzi air. |