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

"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)

Raymonde bowed, with heels together and hands back, like the star of a pierrot troupe.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol

He was a pierrot in white satin, with a violet tulle ruffle round his neck and a black velvet mask.

From The Limit by Leverson, Ada

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 Hartley, Marsden