Crossword-Solution: BUFFO 5 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Buffo n.masc. The comic actor in an opera.

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BURLESQUE actor 1 answer
COMIC actor in opera 1 answer
Comedy part in an opera. 1 answer
Comic actor, Italian style. 1 answer
Comical opera role 1 answer
OPERA comedy part 1 answer
OPERA comic actor 1 answer
Operatic type 1 answer
COMIC OPERA SINGER 11 answers
COMIC ___ 83 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BUFFO (5)

Exhibitors of Punch, buffo singers with guitars, reciters of poetry, reciters of stories, a row of cheap exhibitions with clowns and showmen, drums, and trumpets, painted cloths representing the wonders within, and admiring crowds assembled without, assist the whirl and bustle.
Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens 2013
Buffo, mayn't a father beat his own child?” “HIS OWN CHILD!” repeated the Margrave with a burst, almost a shriek of indescribable agony.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 2006
Otto, in a boat, and guarded by a company of his father's men-at-arms, was on the river going towards Cologne, to the monastery of Saint Buffo there.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 2006
His devotion done (and the knight of those days was as pious as he was brave), Sir Ludwig, the gallant Hombourger, exclaimed with a loud voice:-- “Ho! hermit! holy hermit, art thou in thy cell?” “Who calls the poor servant of heaven and Saint Buffo?” exclaimed a voice from the cavern; and presently, from beneath the wreaths of geranium and magnolia, appeared an intensely venerable, ancient, and majestic head--'twas that, we need not say, of Saint Buffo's solitary.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 2006
Liar and traitor! art thou coward, too?” “Holy Saint Buffo! 'tis a fight!” exclaimed the old hermit (who, too, had been a gallant warrior in his day); and like the old war-horse that hears the trumpet's sound, and spite of his clerical profession, he prepared to look on at the combat with no ordinary eagerness, and sat down on the overhanging ledge of the rock, lighting his pipe, and affecting unconcern, but in reality most deeply interested in the event which was about to ensue.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 2006

Quotes with BUFFO (2)

The terms that Sforza Cesarini offered Rossini, 400 Roman Scudi, were not ungenerous, though it must have been galling for Rossini to see the Figaro, Luigi Zamboni, getting almost twice as much, and the Almaviva, Manuel Garcia, being offered three times the amount. Of the first-night cast, only the 'altro buffo', Bartolomeo Botticelli, who played Bartolo, and the 'seconda donna', Elisabetta Lowselet, who played Berta, were paid less than the composer.
Richard Osborne Rossini
I assume you are the sort of person who would go backstage after the opera in hopes of hearing the prima donna crying on the telephone, or walking in on the baritone fellating the basso buffo. I respect that-I was always the same way myself-though I suspect you are not very happy. Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions. I remember, even before this was visited upon me, how I envied those who eagerly did what they were told: those who married without complain…
Christopher Buehlman The Lesser Dead
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–2012).