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

Aubrey Beardsley, the clown, the harlequin, the pierrot of his age. © 13Jan28; A1061320.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1956 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

That was the genius of poets like Dowson, and pierrot was the master of them all.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden

Or had she slipped in through the door during my banter with the pierrot?

From The Gray Nun by Strachey, Lionel

The wailing ceased, but Enrico remained seated, his hands still clutching his bushy hair, while his large brown eyes stared blankly from a face as white as a pierrot.

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague