harlequin
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The harlequin lady beetle has helped farmers and gardeners control plant-eating pests, and defenders argue it is basically harmless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
Away from the from springtime pastels and prints, Alessandro Michele's debut couture collection was full of clashing colours and harlequin print fit for a court jester.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
There’s Anastasia Durasova’s makeup that makes a face look like that of a melting high-glam harlequin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Fashion: See Styles’s sparkling harlequin jumpsuit and other red carpet looks.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
Did she notice the ornamental touches around the entrance, the Roman urns spilling granite fruit, the harlequin marble?
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
A burst of color, channeling the vibrancy of harlequins, took center stage.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
Pierrots, sailors, harlequins and peasants follow in the procession, small bells sewn to their costumes ringing as local brass bands play the streets.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2023
These settings are sometimes populated by characters — clowns, jugglers, harlequins and the like — familiar to theater from Italian commedia dell’arte.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022
Filmmakers have long taken the already frightening, already dicey image of the clown and exploited it by making intentionally scary harlequins and bozos in films both dramatic and horrific.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2017
He saw Ku Klux Klan hoods, skeletons, harlequins in garish colors, painted faces.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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