buffon.adj.
/ˈbʊfəʊ/, U.S. /ˈbufoʊ/ A. n.
A comic actor, a singer in a comic opera.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part
ruffy1502
chorus1561
prologuer1570
prologue1579
turquet1625
woman actor1633
underpart1679
epilogist1716
prologist1716
epiloguizer1748
old man1762
prologuizer1762
buffo1764
extrac1777
jeune premier1817
primo buffo1826
character actor1841
utility man1849
deuteragonist1855
character comedian1857
bit playera1859
utility actor1860
serio-comic1866
juvenile lead1870
serio-comique1870
heavy1880
utility1885
thinker1886
onnagata1889
serio1889
juvenile1890
tritagonist1890
oyama1925
juve1935
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > opera-singer > [noun] > chief male singer > comic
buffo1764
primo buffo1826
basso-buffo1909
1764 S. Foote Patron i. 3 A rank impostor, the bufo of an illiberal mercenary tribe.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV lxxxi. 111 The buffo of the party.
B. adj.
Belonging to or characteristic of a buffo; comic, burlesque.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [adjective] > type of actor by performance
tear-cat1606
Roscian1607
buffo1789
stickish1810
Protean1871
glimmery1892
hammy1929
ham1935
pixilated1959
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 177 They..sung a thousand buffo songs.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. (1860) ii. 42 Every burlesque or buffo song, of any pretension, was pretty sure to be Italian.
1851 C. Kingsley Yeast xiii. 237 Genial earnest buffo humour here and there.
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