Definition of "harlequin" in Anglais

noun

1. A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes, used as a stock character in commedia dell'arte and other genres.

2. A greenish-chartreuse color.

3. (informal) A harlequin duck.

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

adjective

1. Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.

2. Of a greenish-chartreuse color.

verb

1. (transitive) To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.

2. (intransitive) To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.