harlequin opal

1. 1.

   a reddish opal with small patches of brilliant color

   Broaderopal

Questions about harlequin opal

What does harlequin opal mean?

harlequin opal means "a reddish opal with small patches of brilliant color".

Is harlequin opal a common word?

harlequin opal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.