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

Raymonde bowed, with heels together and hands back, like the star of a pierrot troupe.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol

How tiresome that pierrot was with his banjo, and the poor baby that wouldn't stop crying!

From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Brazil, Angela

This contained a note written on scented paper, edged with gold, and decorated with a miniature representation of a pierrot, sitting cross-legged, conning a book, on the open pages of which appeared the letters L.V.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard

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