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
"I am sorry to bring you off the Beverley affair, Wigan, but I think we ought to settle this pierrot business."
From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner
Or had she slipped in through the door during my banter with the pierrot?
From The Gray Nun by Lionel Strachey
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 Katherine Cecil Thurston
I was looking for a pierrot without a ruffle, and my search was long and in vain.
From The Count's Chauffeur by William Le Queux
