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

How d’ye think your father would do as a pierrot?

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

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

Fr. pierrot is still used for the sparrow.

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

But if he had worn the garments of a pierrot or a clown, one would never have noticed it.

From The Master Mummer by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)