Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Punch," French (17c.), from Neapolitan Polecenella (see Punch).\n
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Polichinelle is The Prayer Boat's second full-length album, released on March 20, 2001 on Atlantic/ Setanta records.
Polichinelle is French for the Commedia dell'arte character Pulcinella.
It may also refer to:
- Polichinelle (album), 2001 The Prayer Boat album
- Polichinelle, 1962 Edith Piaf song from album Les Amants De Teruel
- Polichinelle, a 1967 song by the French singer France Gall
- Polichinelle, a band whose members include Bubu and Serafina Ouistiti
- Polichinelle, a piece for solo piano by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Morceaux de fantaisie (1892) Op. 3, No. 4.
- Polichinelle, the little children or clowns in The Nutcracker ballet who emerge from Mother Ginger's enormous hoop skirt to do a short dance
- Polichinelle Couloir near La Grave, France where the American extreme skier Doug Coombs died in a fall.
- Polichinelle, a 2012 cover by the Symphonic Metal band Therion
Usage examples of "polichinelle".
Binet fetched a sigh, and addressed himself to the elderly, swarthy, beetle-browed Polichinelle, who sat on his left.
At intervals they halted, the cacophony would cease abruptly, and Polichinelle would announce in a stentorian voice that at five o’clock that evening in the old market, M.
When a half-hour or so later they came to carry on the work, Andre-Louis and his companions went to dine in their turn, leaving Polichinelle to direct the operations as well as assist in them.
This duty he discharged dressed in a Polichinelle costume, and wearing a pasteboard nose.
Moliere’s original part — the title role — had dwindled into insignificance, to the great disgust of Polichinelle, to whom it fell.
There was, too, a comical part for Rhodomont, as the roaring bully hired by Polichinelle to cut Leandre into ribbons.
Parvissimus over this authorship,” said Polichinelle, with impudent suggestiveness.
They acknowledged it generously in a speech entrusted to Polichinelle, adding the tribute to his genius that, as they had conquered Nantes, so would they conquer the world under his guidance.
In associating himself with Polichinelle, he desired to thank Scaramouche, much in the manner of a lord rendering thanks to his steward for services diligently rendered and orders scrupulously carried out.
It was Polichinelle, at last, who gave the signal by rising and withdrawing, and within two minutes none remained in the room but M.
For in the wake of Columbine went Leandre, in the wake of Leandre, Polichinelle and then all the rest together, until Binet found himself sitting alone at the head of an empty table in an empty room — a badly shaken man whose rage could afford him no support against the dread by which he was suddenly invaded.
Binet had succeeded at last in breaking past Polichinelle and Rhodomont, who in view of his murderous rage had been endeavouring to restrain him.
His troupe had deserted him during his illness, and reconstituted under the direction of Polichinelle it was now striving with tolerable success to continue upon the lines which Andre-Louis had laid down.
They were a troupe of Italian Comedians, all of whom played strongly marked characters such as Polichinelle the old father, Climene the beautiful leading lady, Rhodomont the braggart, Leandre the lover, Pasquariel, and other figures from the Commedia dell' Arte.
He bullied old Frank Moore, who played Polichinelle, and was a very old hand and an extraordinarily nice person.