Columbina
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This article is about the commedia character. For other uses, see Columbina (disambiguation).
"Colombina" redirects here. For other uses, see Colombina (disambiguation).
Columbina (Italian: Colombina,[1] meaning "little dove"; French and English: Colombine) is a stock character in the commedia dell'arte.[2] She is Harlequin's mistress,[2] a comic servant playing the tricky slave type, and wife of Pierrot. Rudlin and Crick use the Italian spelling Colombina in Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Troupes.[3]