Meanings (ES + gloss)
arlequín
A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes, used as a stock character in commedia dell'arte and other genres.
Motives are like harlequins—there is always a second dress beneath their first.
[…] were certainly the worst and dullest company into which an audience was ever introduced; and (which was a secret known to few) were actually intended so to be, in order to cont…
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