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harlequin

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help with synonyms  synonyms: merry-andrew, buffoon ???
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1. A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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2. brightly colored
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On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.

F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby (1925)
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a long-limbed girl in harlequin glasses

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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