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

Mr. Frank Beaurepeare, of swimming fame, successfully managed the picture show, and eventually got together a few vocalists and comedians, who were organized into a pierrot group.

From Over the Top With the Third Australian Division by McBeath, Neil

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

Rose and violet of the eighteen ninety hues have for long been dispensed with, as has the pierrot and his moon.

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

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

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec