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
Rose and violet of the eighteen ninety hues have for long been dispensed with, as has the pierrot and his moon.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
I was looking for a pierrot without a ruffle, and my search was long and in vain.
From The Count's Chauffeur by Le Queux, William
She sighs for a career, and thinks Chesters Castle a fine foundation for it, but her crest is a ladder; Eric's is a pierrot.
From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard
Raymonde bowed, with heels together and hands back, like the star of a pierrot troupe.
From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol
