Harlequin

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.

(2): ( n. i.) To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

(3): ( v. t.) Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

A character in a Christmas pantomime, in love with Columbine, presumed to be invisible, and deft at tricks to frustrate those of the clown, who is his rival lover.

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