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

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

Or had she slipped in through the door during my banter with the pierrot?

From The Gray Nun by Strachey, Lionel

Edith Hammond-Smith was a fairy, and Claudia a pierrot; while Flossie Taylor, in an Eastern shawl, and with bangles tied on for ear-rings, looked a gorgeous Cleopatra.

From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela

Parrott, Perrott, etc., were sometimes nicknames, the etymology being the same, for our word parrot is from Fr. pierrot.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest