harlequin
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
harlequin (plural harlequins)
- A pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered colorful clothes.
- A greenish-chartreuse color.
- (informal) A harlequin duck.
- (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.
- French: arlequin
- German: Harlekin
- Italian: arlecchino
- Portuguese: arlequim
- Russian: арлеки́н
- Spanish: arlequín
harlequin (not comparable)
- Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.
- Of a greenish-chartreuse color.
- Italian: arlecchino
harlequin (harlequins, present participle harlequining; past and past participle harlequined)
- (transitive) To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
- (intransitive) To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
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