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 Gaston Leroux
How tiresome that pierrot was with his banjo, and the poor baby that wouldn't stop crying!
From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Angela Brazil
But if he had worn the garments of a pierrot or a clown, one would never have noticed it.
From The Master Mummer by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Parrott, Perrott, etc., were sometimes nicknames, the etymology being the same, for our word parrot is from Fr. pierrot.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
