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
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 Grant Martin Overton
Mr. Frank Beaurepeare, of swimming fame, successfully managed the picture show, and eventually got together a few vocalists and comedians, who were organized into a pierrot group.
From Over the Top With the Third Australian Division by Neil McBeath
Aged pierrot, gone home to his mother, the Moon, to bask forever in the twilight of his old and vague fancies.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
Or had she slipped in through the door during my banter with the pierrot?
From The Gray Nun by Lionel Strachey
