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
He was dressed appropriately as a pierrot, with a wand in his hand, and pirouetted about to his heart's content.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
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
Aged pierrot, gone home to his mother, the Moon, to bask forever in the twilight of his old and vague fancies.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
A dead pierrot would be discovered, and the troupe at Brighton would be communicated with.
From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner
