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

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

Fr. pierrot is still used for the sparrow.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

Crayford has tried to bring off a fresh deal with Sennier, but been beaten off by the pierrot in petticoats, as he calls the great Henriette.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner