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Harlequin

/ˈhɑːlɪkwɪn/

A pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered colorful clothes.

📖 Definitions of "Harlequin"

noun
  1. 1

    A pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered colorful clothes.

  2. 2

    A greenish-chartreuse color.

  3. 3

    A harlequin duck.

  4. 4

    Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.

verb
  1. 1

    To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.

  2. 2

    To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

adjective
  1. 1

    Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.

  2. 2

    Of a greenish-chartreuse color.

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