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Meanings of harlequinade in inglés

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Acting like a clown or buffoon.

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        Usage of harlequinade in inglés
        1
        It was a famous harlequinade; and, as usual, it concluded the entertainment.
        Corporal Sam and Other Stories
        2
        Prime ministers had succeeded each other like the clowns in a harlequinade.
        The Valley of Decision
        3
        The next, he would repeat his first travesty in all its hideous harlequinade.
        The Works of Max Beerbohm
        4
        A harlequinade's the quickest thing we can do, for two reasons.
        The Innocence of Father Brown
        5
        However little one may mourn the dead, something forbids a harlequinade over their graves.
        Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
        6
        It is the sort of thing he could write and ought to write: a religious harlequinade.
        Gilbert Keith Chesterton
        7
        Young people must be at some harlequinade.'
        Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3
        8
        The similes are hyperbolic; the names are grotesque; the incidents partake of harlequinade, and the speeches of roaring farce.
        Studies in Early Victorian Literature
        9
        As to the dressing, it's a perfect trick of harlequinade, and she'll own it after a dose of Earlsfont.
        Celt and Saxon — Volume 1
        10
        No unity of plan, no decent propriety of character and costume, could be found in that wild and monstrous harlequinade.
        Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
        11
        Instantly, with the precision of a harlequinade, a stream of giggling girls poured from Eyre Street Hill and Back Hill.
        Nights in London
        12
        It's all damned harlequinade.
        The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 6
        13
        Perhaps justice will emerge from this harlequinade, but if it does, it merely means that this country is, as usual, sort of lucky.
        The new yorker
        14
        The youngster who is engaged at the theatre can set off home at the very latest as soon as the harlequinade is over.
        Side Lights
        15
        In "Mother Goose" there are four opening scenes and fifteen of harlequinade-thepantomime of to-daygenerally reversing this arrangement of figures.
        A Book of the Play / Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Sto...
        16
        The clown and pantaloon came on, and presently Sir Harry saw Taffy's shoulders shaking, and set it down to laughter at the harlequinade.
        The Ship of Stars
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