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How to pronounce harlequin in English?

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Type Words
Type of buffoon, clown, goof, goofball, merry andrew
Type Words
Type of cloud, dapple, mottle


His face was harlequined with patches.

Examples of harlequin

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Exxon Valdez oil in recent years has shown up in sea otters and harlequin ducks.
From the bostonherald.com
Who decided to introduce the harlequin ladybird from Asia in 2003, you don't say.
From the guardian.co.uk
An audience with the Hertfordshire harlequin must wait a couple of minutes longer.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I think I'd rather have the odd rat than a mess of harlequin bugs or cutworms.
From the washingtonpost.com
The team focused their research on harlequin ducks as an example of such a species.
From the sciencedaily.com
Unlike other harlequin frogs, however, stubfoot toads don't have vocal sacs either.
From the newscientist.com
Spotting the rare harlequin ducks will make your visit to Sachuest memorable.
From the projo.com
Harlequin once produced a commercial IDE and compiler for SML called MLWorks.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The harlequin-like man, who turns out to be a Russian, boards the steamboat.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • A clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte)
  • Variegate with spots or marks; "His face was harlequined with patches"
  • Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Francis Quinzel) is a fictional character, who was first introduced as a supervillainess on September 11, 1992, in the animated series '', later adapted into DC Comics' Batman'' comic books. ...
  • Harlequin is a Canadian rock band that formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1975 and lasted until the mid-1980s. The band is best known for their hit singles "I Did It For Love," "Thinking of You," "Superstitious Feeling," and "Innocence."
  • There are many tints and shades of the color green. A large selection of these various colors are shown below.
  • Harlequin is the name of four clown-themed DC Comics characters.
  • Harlequin, known as Dark Forces in the USA, is a 1980 Australian film starring Robert Powell, Carmen Duncan, David Hemmings and Broderick Crawford. The screenplay is by Everett De Roche, the music by Brian May and the film is directed by Simon Wincer.
  • Harlequin (in US The Archer's Tale) is the first novel in The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell. It begins a series of stories set in the middle of the fourteenth century, an age when the four horsemen of the apocalypse seem to have been released over Europe.
  • A pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered clothes; brightly coloured, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes