Brewer's: Masetto

A rustic engaged to Zerlina; but Don Giovanni intercepts them in their wedding festivities, and induces the foolish damsel to believe he meant to make her his wife. (Mozart: Don Giovanni, an opera.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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