pierrot means A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
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PIERROT — [Noun] A stock character from French pantomime, typically a sad or naive white-faced clown in a loose white costume. From French Pierrot, a diminutive of Pierre (“Peter”), via the diminutive suffix -ot. Unlike the cunning, motley Harlequin, a creature of acrobatic plots, or the boisterous, greasepainted clown, a purveyor of circus slapstick, Pierrot is a creature of poetic stillness and thwarted romance. He is the white face powdered with chalk-dust under a single moon, the absurdly oversized sleeves hanging empty as he reaches for an unattainable Columbine, the silent, exaggerated shrug that communicates a world of loss. His tragedy is that he is forever dressed for a wedding that will never occur.
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- 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.”
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- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Tarucus and Castalia, notable for white contrasting with brown or black on the underwings.
- An 18th-century women's low-cut basque with sleeves.