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

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 Macaulay, Rose, Dame

This contained a note written on scented paper, edged with gold, and decorated with a miniature representation of a pierrot, sitting cross-legged, conning a book, on the open pages of which appeared the letters L.V.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard

Crayford has tried to bring off a fresh deal with Sennier, but been beaten off by the pierrot in petticoats, as he calls the great Henriette.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner

How tiresome that pierrot was with his banjo, and the poor baby that wouldn't stop crying!

From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Brazil, Angela