Usually means: Colorful, patterned characters in entertainment.
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  1. harlequins: Merriam-Webster
  2. harlequins: Collins English Dictionary
  3. harlequins: Vocabulary.com
  4. Harlequin's, Harlequins, harlequin's, harlequins: Wordnik
  5. harlequins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. harlequins: Wiktionary
  7. Harlequins: Dictionary.com
  8. Harlequins: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Harlequins: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Harlequins: Encyclopedia

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  1. Harlequins: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Harlequin)

noun:  A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes.
noun:  A greenish-chartreuse color.
noun:  (informal) A harlequin duck.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.
adjective:  Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.
adjective:  Of a greenish-chartreuse color.
verb:  (transitive) To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
verb:  (intransitive) To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
noun:  (theater) The best-known of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte, associated with the city of Bergamo.
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