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
Wigan, get some one who knows Beverley to go and look at the dead pierrot.
From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner
Fr. pierrot is still used for the sparrow.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
How tiresome that pierrot was with his banjo, and the poor baby that wouldn't stop crying!
From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Angela Brazil
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
