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harlequinade

[ UK /hˈɑːlɪkwˌɪne‍ɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. acting like a clown or buffoon

How To Use harlequinade 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'.
  • 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
  • But this show is - virtually - all variations on the nostalgic of the harlequinade.
  • These scampered through his brain and tore up his heart and tumbled about in his throat and lungs, and maintained a furious harlequinade, and in short behaved in a way that was quite disgraceful, and that caused the poor young man alternately to amuse, annoy, astonish, and stun his comrades, who beheld the exterior results of those private theatricals, but had no conception of the terrific combats that took place so frequently on the stage within. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
  • It has been called 'a satirical harlequinade ', a burlesque, and is said to be about the nature of female power and whether such power can be achieved in real life or just exists in romantic fiction. Charlotte (Ramsay) Lennox (c.1729-1804)
  • Peter took out his card, and followed the gay frotteur, up and down the room, in the faint hope of placing it in his hand; but the man, by twirling, and capering, and harlequinade, always eluded his pursuit. Paris Lions and London Tigers
  • And felt a shadow cross the harlequinade the harlequinade of his time. 'The Pregnant Widow'
  • Why! suppose I possessed a theatrical wardrobe, would you venture to argue from that that I am in the frequent habit of wearing the trailing robes of tragedy, the saffron cloak of the mimic dance, or the patchwork suit of the harlequinade? The Defense
  • Set to movie-style music by Nino Rota, the ballet is a modern, plotless harlequinade, with three charming but very different pairs of lovers and a corps of twelve.
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