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harlequinades

harlequinades is the plural of harlequinade.

Meaning of harlequinade

Noun

harlequinade (plural harlequinades)

  1. A pantomime-like comedy featuring the harlequin or clown.
  2. Any comical or fantastical procedure or playfulness.
    • Away up the gorge all diurnal fancies trooped into the wide liberties of endless luminous vistas of azure sunlit mountains beneath the shining azure heavens, the ranges and valleys changing with every mood of the atmosphere, with the harlequinade of the clouds and the wind.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 154

Questions about harlequinades

What is harlequinades the plural of?
Harlequinades is the plural of harlequinade.

Words near harlequinades in the dictionary

  1. harlequin snake
  2. harlequin snakes
  3. harlequin syndrome
  4. harlequin-type ichthyosis
  5. harlequinade
  6. harlequinades
  7. harlequined
  8. harlequinery
  9. harlequinesque
  10. harlequinic
  11. harlequining

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