Pierrette
Americannoun
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Pierrettes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Pierrette
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Pierrette Aboheu Njeuthat, cast in the title role, is Mbakam’s cousin, and many of the figures who orbit Pierrette’s life are the actress’s neighbors and relatives.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Most community gardens in L.A. are “hobby gardens” for more affluent demographics, said Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, a USC researcher who has written a book about California gardens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
Pierrette Abeel, a longtime resident of Alexandria, Va., walked by the Watermark construction site every day as the building went up.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2020
When Marine was sixteen, her mother, Pierrette, left Jean-Marie for his biographer.
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
“Why don’t we join together and run a street show—Pierrot, Pierrette, Harlequin, and Columbine?”
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
Gradually, however, and more especially under the influence of Japanese lanterns and a moon-splashed sea, Michael and Alan avowed openly their fondness for the more serious songs sung by the Pierrettes.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
A list of names was kept ready for them, and Babettes, Papillons, Pierrots and Pierrettes, Mistigrises and Beelzebubs, were distributed to friends and acquaintances.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Three little Pierrettes scampered through the crowd, pelting right and left with confetti and balloons, and two stalwart monks and a thin Hamlet pursued them, keeping up the bombardment amid a great combustion of balloons.
From The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley
It seemed unlikely to be an amusing affair, so she and Lily went in the most ordinary of their fancy dresses as masked Pierrettes.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
All round the car, helter-skelter, tumbling, pushing, came Pierrots and Pierrettes, carrying lanthorns, and Harlequins bearing the torches.
From The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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