harlequin

How To Use harlequin In A Sentence

• But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
• At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
• The town now boasts the Harlequin shopping centre.
• They carried candles and wore masks: an eggshell face with antlers; a patchwork harlequin; a Casanova; a Scaramouch. The Faculty Club
• The harlequin is enamoured of a young dancer who has been forced to marry the proprietor of the troupe.
• Another new duck for us was the exquisite Harlequin Duck, a waterfowl rarely spotted close to shore.
• Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Canon
• We were very grateful to Tim Rodber for turning out for us against Harlequins the week before he won his first cap.
• It began at 5 O'clock, out on the grounds amid harlequin tents and decorations.
• At the last minute, the host decides to lighten things up by adding Zerbinetta and her Italian commedia dell'arte troupe to the program, and then, to save time, ordains that the opera and the harlequinade be combined. Christmas Gifts From Paris