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‖ buffo, n. and a.|ˈbuffo|
[a. It. buffo adj., comical, burlesque: see buffoon.]
A. n. A comic actor, a singer in a comic opera.
B. as adj. Belonging to or characteristic of a buffo; comic, burlesque.
1764Foote Patron i. i, A rank impostor, the bufo of an illiberal mercenary tribe. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 177 They..sung a thousand buffo songs. 1821Byron Juan iv. lxxxi, The buffo of the party. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. ii. (1860) 42 Every burlesque or buffo song, of any pretension, was pretty sure to be Italian. 1851Kingsley Yeast xiii. 237 Genial earnest buffo humour here and there. |