Pierrot

proper nounattested in dialogue

//pɪəˈɹəʊ//
//pjɛˈɹəʊ//

A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume.

proper noun

1
A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume.
I'll win them by politeness, and... and... show them that I've nothing to do with that Aesop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have.
And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like every other well-bred Englishman, as a Pierrot, but as Mephistopheles […] "He said that the costume of Pierrot, while pleasing to the eye, lacked the authority of the Mephistopheles costume."
The rest of the family then invades the studio, three boys dressed as Pierrots and three girls dressed as Pierrettes.

Etymology

French Pierrot, diminutive of Pierre (“Peter”) via diminutive suffix -ot.

Forms

plural: Pierrots

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