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harlequin

Posted on February 10, 2016February 9, 2016 by admin

har lə kwihn
noun
1. (often cap.) a clown in Italian popular comedy of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, traditionally masked and dressed in multicolored diamond-patterned tights.
2. any clown or buffoon.

adjective
having a brightly colored diamond pattern.

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