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

He was a pierrot in white satin, with a violet tulle ruffle round his neck and a black velvet mask.

From The Limit by Leverson, Ada

Wigan, get some one who knows Beverley to go and look at the dead pierrot.

From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Brebner, Percy James

I was looking for a pierrot without a ruffle, and my search was long and in vain.

From The Count's Chauffeur by Le Queux, William

At present there are several Huxleys—the artificer in words, the amateur of garbage, pierrot lunaire, the cynic in rag-time, the fastidious sensualist.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin