pierrot

Example Sentences

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Pierrots, sailors, harlequins and peasants follow in the procession, small bells sewn to their costumes ringing as local brass bands play the streets.

From Reuters

Other characters — the Peasant, the Sailor, the Harlequin, the Pierrot or the Gille’s Wife — also play a role in the carnival.

From Seattle Times

The figure in white, standing at center, is the clown Pierrot, ignorant, naive, unlucky in love.

From Washington Post

“In Schoenberg’s ‘Pierrot Lunaire,’ there’s a line that translates to ‘I breathe the air of other worlds.’

From New York Times

"This was our Rosetta Stone," says Pierrot, referring to the inscriptions which help decode Egyptian hieroglyphics.

From BBC