Meaning & use
Lazzo
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A comic routine or piece of stage business, especially one improvised by an actor in commedia dell'arte.
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The actor's slapstick lazzo had the audience roaring with laughter.
Directors still study traditional lazzi when staging commedia dell'arte plays.
A note on using this word
"Lazzo" (plural "lazzi") is an Italian theatrical term for a stock comic routine used by masked performers in commedia dell'arte.
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