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
Raymonde bowed, with heels together and hands back, like the star of a pierrot troupe.
From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon
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 Marsden Hartley
He was a pierrot in white satin, with a violet tulle ruffle round his neck and a black velvet mask.
From The Limit by Ada Leverson
You cannot take a face as a serious thing; it is one of nature's jests, and it is most suitably dealt with as the clown and the pierrot deal with theirs.
From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Dame Rose Macaulay
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