Usually means: Colorful, patterned costume; theatrical character.
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  1. harlequin: Merriam-Webster
  2. Harlequin, harlequin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harlequin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harlequin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harlequin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harlequin, harlequin: Wordnik
  7. harlequin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. harlequin: Wiktionary
  9. Harlequin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. harlequin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. harlequin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Harlequin, harlequin: Dictionary.com
  13. harlequin: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Harlequin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. harlequin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. harlequin: Rhymezone
  18. Harlequin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. harlequin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Harlequin: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. harlequin: FreeDictionary.org
  22. Harlequin: The Word Detective
  23. harlequin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. harlequin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. harlequin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. harlequin: Encyclopedia

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  1. harlequin: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  2. harlequin: Medical dictionary

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  1. harlequin: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Harlequin: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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  1. harlequin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Harlequin)

noun:  A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes.
noun:  A greenish-chartreuse color.
noun:  (informal) A harlequin duck.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.
adjective:  Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.
adjective:  Of a greenish-chartreuse color.
verb:  (transitive) To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
verb:  (intransitive) To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
noun:  (theater) The best-known of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte, associated with the city of Bergamo.

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