harlequinade
a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
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How to use harlequinade in a sentence
The curtain rises on a stage set for a harlequinade, a merry black and white interior.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousOne needs no civilised culture to appreciate the fun of the harlequinade, and to that has Charlie, with true instinct, returned.
Adventures and Enthusiasms | E. V. LucasBut it is the harlequinade accelerated, intensified, toned up for the exacting taste of the great and growing "picture" public.
Adventures and Enthusiasms | E. V. LucasPunch still intermittently bewailed the decline of the harlequinade.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV. | Charles L. GravesBut—that such talent may not rust, I will place one by your side on whom you can practise your harlequinade follies at pleasure.
Love and Intrigue | Friedrich Schiller
British Dictionary definitions for harlequinade
/ (ˌhɑːlɪkwɪˈneɪd) /
(sometimes capital) theatre a play or part of a pantomime in which harlequin has a leading role
buffoonery
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