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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024har•le•quin (här′lə kwin, -kin),USA pronunciation n. - Show Business, Literature(often cap.) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
- a buffoon.
- Reptilesany of various small snakes having bright diamond-pattern scales.
adj. - fancifully varied in color, decoration, etc.:harlequin pants.
- resembling a harlequin's mask:harlequin glasses.
- Middle English *Herla king, Old English *Her(e)la cyning King Herle, presumably a legendary figure, rendered in Anglo-Latin as Herla rex; compare Old High German Herilo a personal name, derivative of heri armed forces
- Middle French, phonetically continuing Old French *harlequin, halequin a malevolent spirit (Compare mesniee Hellequin a troop of demonic horsemen, literally, Hellequin's escort), probably
- Italian arlecchino
- French, Middle French (h)arlequin, semantically (and in part phonetically)
- 1580–90
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