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harlequin

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Source Word

harlequin

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈhɑːlɪkwɪn/

Noun

informal

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

Japanese Meaning

カラフルな格子模様の衣装をまとった道化役（パントマイムの道化師） / 青緑がかった黄緑色 / ハーレクインカモ（非公式な表現でのカモの種類）

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The harlequin danced across the stage, eliciting laughter with every exaggerated gesture.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

カラフルな格子模様の衣装を着た道化師が舞台を踊り抜け、その誇張された仕草のたびに観客の笑いを誘った。

Sense（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.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

A greenish-chartreuse color.

harlequin:

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(informal) A harlequin duck.

Sense（4）

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

harlequins

（ plural ）

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