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
A dead pierrot would be discovered, and the troupe at Brighton would be communicated with.
From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner
How d’ye think your father would do as a pierrot?
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
I was quite sure that she would not go far, dressed as a pierrot and wearing a night-cap.
From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko
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