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
Raymonde bowed, with heels together and hands back, like the star of a pierrot troupe.
From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon
This contained a note written on scented paper, edged with gold, and decorated with a miniature representation of a pierrot, sitting cross-legged, conning a book, on the open pages of which appeared the letters L.V.
From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw
A female pierrot dances past me with Don Juan, and, with a laugh, throws a handful of confetti in my face.
From The Gray Nun by Lionel Strachey
Aubrey Beardsley, the clown, the harlequin, the pierrot of his age. © 13Jan28; A1061320.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1956 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
