A character from literature and opera known for being a clever barber and schemer; used sometimes to mean a clever operator.
From French literature and opera, the character Figaro was created by Pierre Beaumarchais in the late 1700s. The name may derive from Spanish 'fígaro' but the character made the name famous.
Figaro's story is about a clever underdog servant who outwits his aristocratic boss—in the 1780s, this was genuinely revolutionary and helped fuel actual French Revolutionary ideas about class and power.
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