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English to English noun
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a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte) |  | source: wordnet30
| 2 |
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. | | source: webster1913 verb
| 3 |
variegate with spots or marks | | Example: His face was harlequined with patches
source: wordnet30
| 4 |
To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks. | | source: webster1913
| 5 |
To remove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick. | | source: webster1913
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