Befit vs Harlequinesque - What's the difference?
befit | harlequinesque |
Like or befitting a harlequin; clownish.
* 1916 , Richard Ashley Rice, Robert Louis Stevenson: How to Know Him
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 11, author=Matthew Gurewitsch, title=Admire the Footwork, but Mind the Hands, work=New York Times
, passage=Sam Archer is the harlequinesque dancer who was trained in musical theater, while Richard Winsor is the taller, heavier-boned dancer who was trained in ballet. }}
As a verb befit
is to be fit for.As an adjective harlequinesque is
like or befitting a harlequin; clownish.harlequinesque
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a powerful young fellow, with bewildered hair and beard, wearing his neck open; his blouse was stained with oil-colours in a harlequinesque disorder...
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