Harlequin [noun]

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.

Like Harlequin, bounding from the sides and capering before the footlights, this new species makes a sudden apparition.

She bulked above him and it was about this time I began truly to be sorry for my harlequin friend.

The Calicurgus pays no attention to threats: under her harlequin's coat, she is violent in attack and quick on her legs.

The harlequin's dress is made of lozenges, an inch square, of turquoise blue silk and gold alternately.

The harlequin duck is a northern bird that comes but little into the United States on either coast.