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Harlequin and Jester Definitions

Harlequin

Harlequin A conventional buffoon of the commedia dell'arte, traditionally presented in a mask and parti-colored tights.

Jester

One given to jesting.

Harlequin

A clown; a buffoon.

Jester

A fool or buffoon at medieval courts.

Harlequin

Having a pattern of brightly colored diamond shapes.

Jester

One who jests, jokes or teases.
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Harlequin

A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes.

Jester

A person in colourful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.

Harlequin

A greenish-chartreuse color.

Jester

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Southeast Asian genus Symbrenthia.

Harlequin

(informal) A harlequin duck.

Jester

A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear.
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Harlequin

(entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.

Jester

A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.
He ambled up and downWith shallow jesters.

Harlequin

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

Jester

A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

Harlequin

Of a greenish-chartreuse color.

Harlequin

(transitive) To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
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Harlequin

(intransitive) To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

Harlequin

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.
As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters.

Harlequin

To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

Harlequin

To remove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.
And kitten, if the humor hitHas harlequined away the fit.

Harlequin

A clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte)

Harlequin

Variegate with spots or marks;
His face was harlequined with patches

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