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

How d’ye think your father would do as a pierrot?

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

They both looked at the picture—a study in black and white, showing an attic room, with a pierrette seated disconsolate upon a bed, a pierrot gazing through a window.

From Max by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

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

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 Weekley, Ernest