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
But if he had worn the garments of a pierrot or a clown, one would never have noticed it.
From The Master Mummer by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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
A dead pierrot would be discovered, and the troupe at Brighton would be communicated with.
From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner
They both looked at the picture—a study in black and white, showing an attic room, with a pierrette seated disconsolate upon a bed, a pierrot gazing through a window.
From Max by Katherine Cecil Thurston
