2006-09-01 08:43:44 · 13 answers · asked by sam182 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
A Harlequin is also a dressmakers dummy. Those half clad people with no heads who stand in shop windows.... Quite distinguishable to the shop staff who have no brains! :-D
2006-09-01 08:53:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Harlequin is a clown.
2006-09-01 15:49:32 · answer #2 · answered by Bob S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
har�le�quin �audio� (h�rl-kwn, -kn) KEY �
NOUN:
1. Harlequin A conventional buffoon of the commedia dell'arte, traditionally presented in a mask and parti-colored tights.
2. A clown; a buffoon.
ADJECTIVE:
Having a pattern of brightly colored diamond shapes.
ETYMOLOGY:
Obsolete French, from Old French Herlequin, Hellequin, a demon, perhaps from Middle English *Herleking, from Old English Herla cyning, King Herla, a mythical figure identified with Woden
2006-09-01 15:50:31 · answer #3 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harlequin (Arlecchino in Italian, Arlequin in French) is the most popular of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell'Arte.
2006-09-01 15:49:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
har‧le‧quin /ËhÉrlÉkwɪn, -kɪn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hahr-luh-kwin, -kin] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
2. a buffoon.
3. any of various small snakes having bright diamond-pattern scales.
–adjective 4. fancifully varied in color, decoration, etc.: harlequin pants.
5. resembling a harlequin's mask: harlequin glasses.
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[Origin: 1580–90; < F, MF (h)arlequin, semantically (and in part phonetically) < It arlecchino < MF, phonetically continuing OF *harlequin, halequin a malevolent spirit (Compare mesniee Hellequin a troop of demonic horsemen, lit., Hellequin's escort), prob. < ME *Herla king, OE *Her(e)la cyning King Herle, presumably a legendary figure, rendered in AL as Herla rex; cf. OHG Herilo a personal name, deriv. of heri armed forces]
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har‧le‧quin‧ism, noun
2006-09-01 15:51:16 · answer #5 · answered by codge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it's a jester, as a shopping mall i go to is called the harlequin, and it's logo is a jester.
2006-09-01 15:50:07 · answer #6 · answered by .xXHannahXx. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boy-friend of Columbine
2006-09-01 15:50:59 · answer #7 · answered by Steve K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
harlequin is a name of a patterned material isnt it??!!
2006-09-01 16:00:27 · answer #8 · answered by morningstardawn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the name of a famous Clown/jester/mime.
2006-09-01 15:54:54 · answer #9 · answered by cartervelcro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a shopping centre in Watford.
Sorry Hannah, think I might have just told evryone where you live
2006-09-01 15:54:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋