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

I was looking for a pierrot without a ruffle, and my search was long and in vain.

From The Count's Chauffeur by Le Queux, William

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 Thurston, Katherine Cecil

At present there are several Huxleys—the artificer in words, the amateur of garbage, pierrot lunaire, the cynic in rag-time, the fastidious sensualist.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin

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.