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
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 Marsden Hartley
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
Mr. Frank Beaurepeare, of swimming fame, successfully managed the picture show, and eventually got together a few vocalists and comedians, who were organized into a pierrot group.
From Over the Top With the Third Australian Division by Neil McBeath
You cannot take a face as a serious thing; it is one of nature's jests, and it is most suitably dealt with as the clown and the pierrot deal with theirs.
From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Dame Rose Macaulay
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