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harlequin

noun as in clown

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The group is so susceptible to the disease that with the added pressures of climate change and habitat loss, around 70 percent of known harlequin frog species are now listed as extinct or critically engendered.

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.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to harlequin, such as: buffoon, and jester.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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