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Arlecchino
Italian · 1500s
"a comic servant character in Italian theater"
a stock bumbling-servant character in commedia dell'arte, of disputed deeper origin
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harlequin
English · 1580s
"a comic pantomime character"
borrowed for the same stock theatrical character
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harlequin
English · 1779
"a multicolored, diamond-patterned design"
extended to a diamond-patterned, multicolored design, after the character's costume
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