harlequin
IPA: hˈɑrɫʌkwʌn
noun
- A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes.
- A greenish-chartreuse color.
- (informal) A harlequin duck.
- (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.
- (theater) The best-known of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte, associated with the city of Bergamo.
verb
- (transitive) To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
- (intransitive) To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
adjective
- Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.
- Of a greenish-chartreuse color.
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Examples of "harlequin" in Sentences
- The Harlequin is the comic of the show.
- The figure takes the Harlequin costume.
- Harlequin would be great if done right.
- The harlequin once again calls for music.
- Harlequin brought in the Dummy and a duped Solomon Grundy.
- And to be contacted by The Harlequin can mean three things.
- Harlequin variation of the Merle gene on a separate allele.
- This is called the harlequin bug from its fantastic appearance.
- He developed the character of harlequin into a mischievous magician.
- Harlequin syndrome should not redirect to Harlequin type ichthyosis.
- The Harlequin Duck is the symbol of the Land Conservancy of British Columbia.
- Of course then there is the desert in harlequin, it comes from the first Harleqin I ever read and it will always be a fav
- The harlequin was a little girl named Gilchrist, one of the most beautiful children, in face and figure, that I have ever seen.
- The harlequin, which is native to Asia, was introduced to America in 1988 and has become the dominant ladybird species on the American continent.
- After some vain researches the French consul, M. de St. Sauveur, told me that the harlequin was a young lady of rank, and that the columbine was a handsome young man.
- The film is "just an excuse for Tykwer to wallow in harlequin muck - sometimes thrilling but mostly tacky," writes Ed Gonzalez at Slant - before he really gets angry at it.
- The study examines the recent extinctions of species of Atelopus, also know as the harlequin frogs (even though they apparently belong to the toad family), which live in the American tropics.
- There is also a man with a black face, who is a kind of devil, and called harlequin; at one time he appears, and at another time hides himself, and sometimes attaches himself to the others, and taking the hands of the dancing girls, he dances with them; he then scampers off, and taking a leap, he jumps through a window.