Harlequin vs. Jester
Difference Between Harlequin and Jester
Harlequinnoun
A pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered colorful clothes.
Jesternoun
One who jests, jokes or mocks.
Harlequinnoun
A greenish-chartreuse color.
Jesternoun
A person in colourful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.
Harlequinnoun
(informal) A harlequin duck.
Jesternoun
a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
Harlequinnoun
(entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.
Harlequinadjective
Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.
Harlequinadjective
Of a greenish-chartreuse color.
Harlequinverb
(transitive) To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
Harlequinverb
(intransitive) To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
Harlequinnoun
a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte)
Harlequinverb
variegate with spots or marks;
His face was harlequined with patches
