harlequinesque

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1. Like or befitting a harlequin; clownish.

   He was a powerful young fellow, with bewildered hair and beard, wearing his neck open; his blouse was stained with oil-colours in a harlequinesque disorder...

   1916, Richard Ashley Rice, Robert Louis Stevenson: How to Know Him

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   Sam Archer is the harlequinesque dancer who was trained in musical theater, while Richard Winsor is the taller, heavier-boned dancer who was trained in ballet.

   2007 March 11, Matthew Gurewitsch, “Admire the Footwork, but Mind the Hands”, in New York Times