Almaviva, a character in Beaumarchais' Marriage de Figaro, representative of one of the old noblesse of France, recalling all their manners and vices, who is duped by his valet Figaro, a personification of wit, talent, and intrigue.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Al`ma-Tad`ema, Laurence * Almeida