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| − | + | Non-English singer from the "Party-Giving Snobs" chapter of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 collection of satire, ''[https://archive.org/details/bookofsnobs00thac/page/66 The Book of Snobs]''. | |
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To hear this Cacafogo and Thumpenstrumpff, a hundred people are gathered together- | To hear this Cacafogo and Thumpenstrumpff, a hundred people are gathered together- | ||
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| + | "Cacafogo" from Spanish caca-fuego (fire pooper), was a name given to comic braggart characters in plays in the 1600 and 1700s. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*https://archive.org/details/booksnobs03thacgoog/page/n74 | *https://archive.org/details/booksnobs03thacgoog/page/n74 | ||
| + | *https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cacafuego | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Thumpenstrumpff]] | *[[Thumpenstrumpff]] | ||
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| + | [[Category:Classical music]] | ||
Latest revision as of 06:01, 25 September 2019
Non-English singer from the "Party-Giving Snobs" chapter of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 collection of satire, The Book of Snobs.
--a scrubby-looking, yellow-faced foreigner, with cleaned gloves, is warbling inaudibly in a corner, to the accompaniment of another. 'The Great Cacafogo,' Mrs. Botibol whispers, as she passes you by. 'A great creature, Thumpenstrumpff, is at the instrument--the Hetman Platoff's pianist, you know.'
To hear this Cacafogo and Thumpenstrumpff, a hundred people are gathered together-
"Cacafogo" from Spanish caca-fuego (fire pooper), was a name given to comic braggart characters in plays in the 1600 and 1700s.
External Links
- https://archive.org/details/booksnobs03thacgoog/page/n74
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cacafuego
