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

Afterwards reascending the stairs I met, between the second and third flights, a tiny damsel clad as a pierrot, who descended the steps.

From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.

He cross-examined every purveyor of pierrot shoes and pig’s heads in Perpignan.

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec

With his face in a mask trimmed with long, thick lace, looking like a pierrot in his white wrap, the viscount thought himself very ridiculous.

From The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston

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 Brebner, Percy James