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
Parrott, Perrott, etc., were sometimes nicknames, the etymology being the same, for our word parrot is from Fr. pierrot.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
How d’ye think your father would do as a pierrot?
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
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 cross-examined every purveyor of pierrot shoes and pig’s heads in Perpignan.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball
