harlequin
Speech parts
1. harlequin - Noun
2. harlequin - Adjective
3. harlequin - Verb
5. Harlequin - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.
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His face was harlequined with patches
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