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

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 Macaulay, Rose, Dame

Afterwards reascending the stairs I met, between the second and third flights, a tiny damsel clad as a pierrot, who descended the steps.

From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.

At present there are several Huxleys—the artificer in words, the amateur of garbage, pierrot lunaire, the cynic in rag-time, the fastidious sensualist.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin

How tiresome that pierrot was with his banjo, and the poor baby that wouldn't stop crying!

From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Brazil, Angela