pierrot
Example Sentences
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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
With his face in a mask trimmed with long, thick lace, looking like a pierrot in his white wrap, the viscount thought himself very ridiculous.
From The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston
How d’ye think your father would do as a pierrot?
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton
Or had she slipped in through the door during my banter with the pierrot?
From The Gray Nun by Strachey, Lionel
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.
