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Pierrot

NOUN
  1. a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face

How To Use Pierrot In A Sentence

  • Georges' wife, who works for a successful editor, is concerned: not least for their monosyllabic son, Pierrot, a young swimming champ.
  • Colombine rejects Harlequin, and she and Pierrot live happily ever after.
  • But while the most appealing of clowns is Pierrot, pale, lean and dreamy, with cooks, at least until recently, the popular one was the fat guy.
  • _ We see him much the same as he was when he delighted the Parisians in 1830, -- "_Avec sa grand casaque à gros boutons, son large pantalon flottant, ses souliers blancs comme le rests, son visage enfariné, sa tête couverte d'un serre-tête noir ... le véritable Pierrot avec sa bonhomie naïve ... ses joies d'enfant, et ses chagrins d'un effet si comique_" -- and also so pathetic. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891
  • The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot. Main Street
  • It has no railway station, which, of course, is a great merit; it's not to have any big blatant hotels or pensions -- nothing but charming bungalow-cottages; there'll be no pier, no band, none of those banal winter-gardens and impossible pleasure palaces that _ces autres_ delight in, and, _of course_, none of those immensely fearful concert parties and pierrots. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914
  • A white-faced Pierrot, arm-in-arm with a scarlet Columbine, came towards them. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • Pierrot Lunaire, performed in Berlin in 1912, was scored for eight instruments and a voice for which relative pitches were notated to form a speech-melody.
  • 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
  • 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
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