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

Afterwards reascending the stairs I met, between the second and third flights, a tiny damsel clad as a pierrot, who descended the steps.

From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.

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

He cross-examined every purveyor of pierrot shoes and pig’s heads in Perpignan.

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec

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