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 a pierrot in white satin, with a violet tulle ruffle round his neck and a black velvet mask.
From The Limit by Leverson, Ada
At present there are several Huxleys—the artificer in words, the amateur of garbage, pierrot lunaire, the cynic in rag-time, the fastidious sensualist.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin
Fr. pierrot is still used for the sparrow.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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 Brebner, Percy James
