English Dictionary

harlequin

/ˈhɑːlɪkwɪn/

noun

A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes. / A greenish-chartreuse color. / (informal) A harlequin duck.

The harlequin entertained the audience with his comedic antics.

意味（1）

A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes.

[…] 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.

意味（2）

A greenish-chartreuse color.

harlequin:

意味（3）

(informal) A harlequin duck.

意味（4）

(entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.