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 was dressed appropriately as a pierrot, with a wand in his hand, and pirouetted about to his heart's content.

From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)

Parrott, Perrott, etc., were sometimes nicknames, the etymology being the same, for our word parrot is from Fr. pierrot.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

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 Hartley, Marsden

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 Overton, Grant Martin