pierrot
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D Albarn, however, has played a better game than the talcum-faced pierrot and now no massive public- and privately funded multimedia arts project is too small for him to accept.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2011
How tiresome that pierrot was with his banjo, and the poor baby that wouldn't stop crying!
From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Angela Brazil
She sighs for a career, and thinks Chesters Castle a fine foundation for it, but her crest is a ladder; Eric's is a pierrot.
From Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease
"I am sorry to bring you off the Beverley affair, Wigan, but I think we ought to settle this pierrot business."
From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner
"Sleep now and you won't sleep then," added Helen, who was taking the last stitches on a pierrot dress which Ethel Blue was to wear.
From Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
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