harlequinade
- n acting like a clown or buffoon
- Few of the rosy romantics who read Austin Dobson, collect bisque statuets of Pierrot Columbine and attend lectures on the 17th Century harlequinade like to remember that there .
- In the harlequinade tumble for television, radio and newspaper publicity, more and more Congressmen have begun to play to the microphone and the lens.
- UnTiMEworthy is the phrase in PTI'S review of Tonight at 8:30 calling Noel Coward's harlequinade the "first smash hit of a middling season.