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

He cross-examined every purveyor of pierrot shoes and pig’s heads in Perpignan.

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec

With his face in a mask trimmed with long, thick lace, looking like a pierrot in his white wrap, the viscount thought himself very ridiculous.

From The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston

Afterwards reascending the stairs I met, between the second and third flights, a tiny damsel clad as a pierrot, who descended the steps.

From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.

Edith Hammond-Smith was a fairy, and Claudia a pierrot; while Flossie Taylor, in an Eastern shawl, and with bangles tied on for ear-rings, looked a gorgeous Cleopatra.

From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela