Meanings of harlequins in English

Here are all our harlequins and columbines of the spoken and written drama.

A butterfly or flesh-coloured nose is not objected to in harlequins.

The harlequins had made their nest there, beneath a birch bush.

Red harlequins gleamed like blood drawings in the moonlight.

Clowns in white, with big noses, and harlequins in their motley, with flat black masks, abounded.

Picasso's harlequins had leaped out of the paintings.

In the street a travelling circus was passing, with mountebanks on donkeys and harlequins in parti-coloured dresses.

They were dressed as harlequins and ballerinas.

The robed and close-cowled harlequins entered.

The harlequins seemed to dance faster.

Pyramids of men form "pictures of strength" on the public squares; harlequins in the open air perform parades.

The throng had immensely increased; the clowns and harlequins ran shrieking up and down, and leaped over one another's heads.

To please the actors, and especially my mother, I wrote a kind of melodrama, in which I brought out two harlequins.

As she shot toward them, the small ovals of their faces were as luminously white as the painted masks of harlequins.

A confused crowd of maskers jostled each other, sultans, Tyrolese, harlequins, knights in armor, nuns, goddesses, satyrs, monks, Jews, Medes, and Persians.

Most attention will primarily focus on two sides, Cork Harlequins and Lisnagarvey.