Harlequin vs. Jester

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