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
Crayford has tried to bring off a fresh deal with Sennier, but been beaten off by the pierrot in petticoats, as he calls the great Henriette.
From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper
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 Percy James Brebner
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
Raymonde bowed, with heels together and hands back, like the star of a pierrot troupe.
From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon
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