Pierrot

Pier·rot

(pē′ə-rō′, pyĕ-rō′)

A character in French pantomime, dressed in a floppy white outfit.

[French, diminutive of the name Pierre, Peter, from Old French, from Latin Petrus.]

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Pierrot

(ˈpɪərəʊ; French pjɛro)

1. (Theatre) a male character from French pantomime with a whitened face, white costume, and pointed hat

2. (usually not capital) a clown or masquerader so made up

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Pi•er•rot

(ˌpi əˈroʊ; Fr. pyɛˈroʊ)

n., pl. -rots (-ˈroʊz; Fr. -ˈroʊ)

a male character in certain French pantomimes having a whitened face and wearing a loose white costume.

[1735–45; < French, diminutive of Pierre Peter]

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Pierrot - a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face

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pierrot

[ˈpɪərəʊ] N → pierrot m

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"The one with red cheeks is called Miss Smith; she attends to the work, and cuts out--for we make our own clothes, our frocks, and pelisses, and everything; the little one with black hair is Miss Scatcherd; she teaches history and grammar, and hears the second class repetitions; and the one who wears a shawl, and has a pocket- handkerchief tied to her side with a yellow ribband, is Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France, and teaches French."

"Miss Scatcherd is hasty--you must take care not to offend her; Madame Pierrot is not a bad sort of person."

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He thought hazily of ghosts; and was surprised how swiftly he could see the image of an appropriate and local ghost, one with a face as white as Pierrot's, but patched with black.

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With his face in a mask trimmed with long, thick lace, looking like a pierrot in his white wrap, the viscount thought himself very ridiculous.

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She who had been a broad-backed dray-horse, upon whose hind-quarters pierrots might waltz, became a colt in a field.

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He gambolled in wildly and behind him twenty others perhaps, mostly Pierrots and Pierrettes holding each other by the hand and winding in and out between the chairs and tables: eyes shining in the holes of cardboard faces, breasts panting; but all preserving a mysterious silence.

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If she had ever flirted on the open beach with the baritone of the troupe of pierrots, like Jane Oddy, she could have excused Arthur's attitude.

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Both the plays will be performed by Pierrot Troupe, a theatre group based in New Delhi, India.

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Both plays will be staged by New Delhi-based theatre group Pierrot's Troupe.

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Last week's offering was the 1965 film Pierrot le Fou (The Madman) by Jean-Luc Godard, featuring Jean-Paul Belmond and Anna Karina.

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This included director and story boarder Noriyuki Abe from studio Pierrot, the studio responsible for the anime series.