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

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 was a pierrot in white satin, with a violet tulle ruffle round his neck and a black velvet mask.

From The Limit by Leverson, Ada

"Sleep now and you won't sleep then," added Helen, who was taking the last stitches on a pierrot dress which Ethel Blue was to wear.

From Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

I'd know Nanny's frills anywhere; he looks like a mad pierrot.

From Barnaby A Novel by Ramsay, R.