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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