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
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 Bernard Shaw
Parrott, Perrott, etc., were sometimes nicknames, the etymology being the same, for our word parrot is from Fr. pierrot.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
Aubrey Beardsley, the clown, the harlequin, the pierrot of his age. © 13Jan28; A1061320.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1956 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
But if he had worn the garments of a pierrot or a clown, one would never have noticed it.
From The Master Mummer by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
