harlequinade

The curtain rises on a stage set for a Harlequinade, a merry black and white interior.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays|Various
One needs no civilised culture to appreciate the fun of the harlequinade, and to that has Charlie, with true instinct, returned.
Adventures and Enthusiasms|E. V. Lucas
But it is the harlequinade accelerated, intensified, toned up for the exacting taste of the great and growing "picture" public.
Adventures and Enthusiasms|E. V. Lucas
Punch still intermittently bewailed the decline of the Harlequinade.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV.|Charles L. Graves

But—that such talent may not rust, I will place one by your side on whom you can practise your harlequinade follies at pleasure.
Love and Intrigue|Friedrich Schiller

British Dictionary definitions for harlequinade

harlequinade

/ (ˌhɑːlɪkwɪˈneɪd) /

noun

(sometimes capital) theatre a play or part of a pantomime in which harlequin has a leading role

buffoonery

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