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Opera ___ (or the start of an Old West showman's split personality)
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buffa
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) The comic actress in an opera.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buffa \Buf"fa\, n. fem. (Mus.) [It. See Buffoon .] The comic actress in an opera. -- a. Comic, farcical. Aria buffa , a droll or comic air. Opera buffa , a comic opera. See Opera bouffe .
Usage examples of buffa.
And yes, there were certainly movie scenes in the offices looking out over the mines, the noise, the smoke, but this character Bagby, they remembered a minor character in the movie, kind of a straight man, a foil, short, fat, foul mouthed, a kind of a Punchinello, Oscar, real opera buffa, Bagby in one or two crude dimensions maybe, a stock character, a comic device.
From there it was only two minutes to the Rue de la Buffa where Pina Baroni lived.
Her eye fell on Lieutenant Buffa, attempting to make his considerable height appear to melt into the ground.