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

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

Or had she slipped in through the door during my banter with the pierrot?

From The Gray Nun by Strachey, Lionel

I'd know Nanny's frills anywhere; he looks like a mad pierrot.

From Barnaby A Novel by Ramsay, R.

That was the genius of poets like Dowson, and pierrot was the master of them all.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden