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means A figure dressed in a diamond-patterned costume, playing the clever, nimble trickster — or, more broadly, anything boldly multicolored and patchwork.

from Harlequin descends from Arlecchino, the mask and stock servant of Italian commedia dell'arte — the quick-witted acrobat in the diamond-checkered suit. That figure's own roots reach further back, possibly to Old French 'Herlequin,' the leader of a legendary troop of demon riders galloping through the night sky. So the costume's harlequin diamonds may trace, distantly and eerily, back to a ghost story — the stage clown descended, if the theory holds, from a hellequin.