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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'harlequin' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions harlequin noun  a pantomime clown, typically dressed in checkered clothes 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling :... 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 to the better advantage. adjective  brightly coloured, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes Etymology: from Middle Dutch hellekijn, meaning little hell,then in French hellequin and in Italian Arlecchino, the name of a popular servant character in commedia dell'arte plays.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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