meaning of harlequin
1. A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.
2. To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
3. Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequins trick.
4. a clown or buffoon after the Harlequin character in the commedia dellarte
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