Definizione monolingua

harlequin

harlequin (plural harlequins)

1. a pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered clothes
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     ... were certainly the worst and dullest company into which an audience was ever introduced; and (which was a secret known to few) were actually intended so to be, in order to contrast the comic part of the entertainment, and to display the tricks of harlequin to the better advantage.

harlequin

1. brightly coloured, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clowns clothes

Definizione dizionario harlequin

	arlecchino
	The most popular of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell'Arte.

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Altri significati:

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

pantomime fool

a pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered clothes