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

Wigan, get some one who knows Beverley to go and look at the dead pierrot.

From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Brebner, Percy James

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

Fr. pierrot is still used for the sparrow.

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

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