Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer.

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Examples

  • And the dual figaro wrist and neck gold chains are too kick-ass.

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  • We're in such sync I guess I'll see you at the requiem or at figaro.

    From Paradise to the Abyss sfmike 2006

  • Lat saturday, by default, with an extra $53 ticket, i followed my parents to the esplanade for the opera, the marriage of figaro.

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2006

  • Something inspiring. rhapsody in blue - george gershwin eine kleine nachtmusik - mozart marriage of figaro overture - mozart hallelujah chorus - handel gloria from the coronation mass in c - mozart (the credo is good too) gloria from haydn's missa brevis st. joannis de deo - haydn (again, listen to the credo too) en Español

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  • According to new French research reported in le figaro more than 300,000 French cows would have been ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • That's not free speech for the majority of America. figaro … please spare us with another 'Cause' that is going to save the citizen from the big bad corporation!

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • Keep in mind that three french newspapers have already begun e-reader trials (le monde, le figaro, les echos), yet still no success.

    Fast Company 2009

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  • The cat from Pinocchio.

    January 30, 2010

  • I prefer the GNU Webster's 1913 definition: "An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer."

    February 23, 2011