pierrot

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

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 Gaston Leroux

He cross-examined every purveyor of pierrot shoes and pig’s heads in Perpignan.

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball

The wailing ceased, but Enrico remained seated, his hands still clutching his bushy hair, while his large brown eyes stared blankly from a face as white as a pierrot.

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass

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