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

A female pierrot dances past me with Don Juan, and, with a laugh, throws a handful of confetti in my face.

From The Gray Nun by Strachey, Lionel

She sighs for a career, and thinks Chesters Castle a fine foundation for it, but her crest is a ladder; Eric's is a pierrot.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

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

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