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
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 d’ye think your father would do as a pierrot?
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
After what seemed a long time of suspense Sir Beverley came to tell us the news—looking like a strong-faced, middle-aged pierrot in his surgeon's "make-up."
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
You cannot take a face as a serious thing; it is one of nature's jests, and it is most suitably dealt with as the clown and the pierrot deal with theirs.
From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Dame Rose Macaulay
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