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 Brebner, Percy James

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

Fr. pierrot is still used for the sparrow.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

The wailing ceased, but Enrico remained seated, his hands still clutching his bushy hair, while his large brown eyes stared blankly from a face as white as a pierrot.

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague