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

n. A clown; a buffoon.

adj. Having a pattern of brightly colored diamond shapes.

n. a pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered clothes

adj. brightly coloured, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes

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

n. 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.

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

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

n. In early Italian and later in French comedy, the buffoon or clown, one of the regular character-types.

n. Hence A buffoon in general; a fantastic fellow; a droll.

n. In entomology, the magpie-moth, Abraxas grossulariata.

n. The Oriental or noble opal.

Party-colored; extremely or fantastically variegated in color: specifically applied in zoölogy to sundry animals.

Differing in color or decoration; fancifully varied, as a set of dishes. See harlequin service, below.

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

To remove as if by a harlequin's trick; conjure away.

n. a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte)

v. variegate with spots or marks

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merry-andrew    clown    goof    buffoon    goofball    dapple    mottle    cloud   

harlequin bat    harlequin cabbage-bug    harlequin moth    harlequin duck    harlequin snake    harlequin brant    harlequin beetle    harlequin service   

harlequin duck    harlequinade   

merry-andrew    buffoon   

merry-andrew    juggler    droll    jester    clown    lupine    buffoon    wolfskin    Alyssum