pierrot
Example Sentences
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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
This contained a note written on scented paper, edged with gold, and decorated with a miniature representation of a pierrot, sitting cross-legged, conning a book, on the open pages of which appeared the letters L.V.
From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard
With his face in a mask trimmed with long, thick lace, looking like a pierrot in his white wrap, the viscount thought himself very ridiculous.
From The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston
They both looked at the picture—a study in black and white, showing an attic room, with a pierrette seated disconsolate upon a bed, a pierrot gazing through a window.
From Max by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
But if he had worn the garments of a pierrot or a clown, one would never have noticed it.
From The Master Mummer by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
