Harlequin vs. Jester

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

One given to jesting.

A clown; a buffoon.

A fool or buffoon at medieval courts.

Having a pattern of brightly colored diamond shapes.

One who jests, jokes or teases.

A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes.

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

A greenish-chartreuse color.

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

(informal) A harlequin duck.

A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.

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

A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.

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

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

Of a greenish-chartreuse color.

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

(intransitive) To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

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.

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

To remove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.

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

Variegate with spots or marks;