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harlequin

/hahr-luh-kwin, -kin/US // ˈhɑr lə kwɪn, -kɪn //UK // (ˈhɑːlɪkwɪn) //

哈雷金,色狼,哈雷克,哈雷基姆

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
    • : a buffoon.
    • : any of various small snakes having bright diamond-pattern scales.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : fancifully varied in color, decoration, etc.: harlequin pants.
    • : resembling a harlequin's mask: harlequin glasses.

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Examples

  • The intricate beading in graphic harlequin patterns gave the garments a sense of grandeur and importance.

  • The Harlequin hardback, out today, is appropriately dubbed: Sh*t Girls Say.

  • The publishing house Harlequin enjoys a near monopoly in the romance genre.

  • The protagonist of every book Harlequin puts out has to pass an editorial smell test as being “realistic.”

  • Another way that Harlequin is adapting is through the same technology that has enabled self-publishing.

  • She plays with Captain Lovelock as a child does with a wooden harlequin, she pulls a string and he throws up his arms and legs.

  • Haggard had disappeared with the celerity of a harlequin who jumps through a trap.

  • The carpet was of red baize with a Turkish border, and figured in the middle like an harlequin's jacket.

  • Harlequin had recruited a columbine and a shepherdess, and he introduced these ladies as partners for the promised minuet.

  • The gods of the Renaissance, in whom no one any longer believed, glided into the costumes of Harlequin and Pierrette.