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Harlequinade

noun
1.
Acting like a clown or buffoon.  Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank.





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"Harlequinade" Quotes from Famous Books



... resemblance in them to the kind of elderly gentleman who comes on in the harlequinade to be bonneted by the clown; but Horace was in no mood to be ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... at Fiori. Entire court assembled. A band of strolling players, with a little stage on wheels, are doing a Harlequinade pantomime to amuse the young King Mario, the guest of honor. Beatrice sits beside him. In this scene the two people who are oblivious to the pantomime are Guido and Octavia. Guido is apparently brooding over something. From time to time he looks at Beatrice and Mario. Once, having ...
— The Lamp and the Bell • Edna St. Vincent Millay


Words linked to "Harlequinade" :   craziness, lunacy, schtick, shtik, folly, japery, shtick, schtik, foolery, prank, clowning, frivolity, indulgence, buffoonery, tomfoolery


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