Pierrot

NOUN
  1. a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face
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  • His white-faced character, Bip, based on the 19th-century French Pierrot, a melancholy vagabond, is famous from his appearances on stage and television throughout the world. Five People Born on March 22 | myFiveBest
  • _ at the very bottom of the wall lay a little woollen pompon or tassel, just the kind of pompon that gives a finish to a pierrot's shoes. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
  • Or to put it the other way around, an elaborate contrapuntal texture with emancipated dissonance is a perfect metaphor for the urgent but ineffectual efforts that Pierrot is making.
  • Long nights of Pierrot locked inside invisible boxes, trapped and wailing soundlessly, of Pierrot suspended from invisible trees by invisible ropes, of Pierrot ascending stairs and descending stairs, of Pierrot gesturing the gristly aftermath of a death by Russian Roulette. The Clown Show
  • There is no painting of the anti-heroine as Pierrot.
  • We discern dangling-armed, doll-like Pierrot, the black-masked face and gaudy triangle-patched jumpsuit of Harlequin, the pert topknot of Columbine, the striped jerkin and rakish cowl of Mezzetin.
  • Georges' wife, who works for a successful editor, is concerned: not least for their monosyllabic son, Pierrot, a young swimming champ who sports an unlikely curly mullet.
  • The score anticipated Schoenberg's technique in Gurrelieder and Pierrot Lunaire, indicating the rises and falls of the voice with relative pitches.
  • Now, the only illume from the yellow eyes of alligators, the ghost wane of gases and thereafter, the last sounds of Pierrots echoed throughout the valleys. The Clown Show
  • Georges' wife, who works for a successful editor, is concerned: not least for their monosyllabic son, Pierrot, a young swimming champ.
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