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

Aged pierrot, gone home to his mother, the Moon, to bask forever in the twilight of his old and vague fancies.

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

"I am sorry to bring you off the Beverley affair, Wigan, but I think we ought to settle this pierrot business."

From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Brebner, Percy James

"Sleep now and you won't sleep then," added Helen, who was taking the last stitches on a pierrot dress which Ethel Blue was to wear.

From Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

Crayford has tried to bring off a fresh deal with Sennier, but been beaten off by the pierrot in petticoats, as he calls the great Henriette.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner