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Pierrot

[ pee-uh-roh; French pye-roh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural Pi·er·rots [pee-, uh, -, rohz, pye-, roh].

a male character in certain French pantomime, having a whitened face and wearing a loose, white, fancy costume.
(lowercase) an actor, masquerader, or buffoon so made up.

Pierrot

/ pjɛro; ˈpɪərəʊ /

a male character from French pantomime with a whitened face, white costume, and pointed hat
usually not capital a clown or masquerader so made up

Origin of Pierrot¹

1735–45; < French, diminutive of Pierre Peter

But she hits the mark more than she misses, e.g., a debauched rock star is described as looking like “a Pierrot gone bad.”

It was a corso blanc, and everyone wore white—chiefly modifications of Pierrot costume—and everyone was masked.

Punch and Punchinello, or Pierre and Pierrot are the father and the son of the ancient holy-days or holidays.

Marie Beaugrand she spoke of, but Marie's fiancé, the last finder of the amethyst, she simply called Pierrot.

As it happened, however, there was no mention of Pierrot Desbarat's surname in Jessie's account.

The fact that Pierrot did not appear again was noticed by no single person.

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[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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