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- Dictionaryharlequin/ˈhɑːlɪkwɪn/
noun
- 1. a mute character in traditional pantomime, typically masked and dressed in a diamond-patterned costume.
- 2. a small duck of fast-flowing streams around the Arctic and North Pacific, the male having mainly grey-blue plumage with bold white markings.
adjective
- 1. in varied colours; variegated.
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Define harlequin. harlequin synonyms, harlequin pronunciation, harlequin translation, English dictionary definition of harlequin. n. 1. Harlequin A conventional buffoon of the commedia dell'arte, traditionally presented in a mask and parti-colored tights. 2. A clown; a buffoon.
definition 1: (often cap.) a clown in Italian popular comedy of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, traditionally masked and dressed in multicolored diamond-patterned tights.
noun 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. noun (Zoöl.) an Indian bat ( Scotophilus ornatus ), curiously variegated with white spots.
— n. (often cap.) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand. a buffoon. any of various small snakes having bright diamond-pattern scales. —adj. fancifully varied in color, decoration, etc.: harlequin pants.
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC (known simply as Harlequin) is a publisher of romance, women's fiction and various other genres under multiple publishing imprints. Founded in Winnipeg , Canada, in 1949, from the 1960s, it grew into the largest publisher of romance fiction in the world.
