Meaning of Pierrot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume.
2. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Tarucus and Castalia, notable for white contrasting with brown or black on the underwings.
3. An 18th-century women's low-cut basque with sleeves.
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Examples

“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.”

“Then came the very young, in the “Ballabile des Enfants” from “Harlequinade,” a colorful, confectionary swirl of polichinelles, pierrots and scaramouches, set⟳ to Riccardo Drigo.”

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