Pierrette

American  

[pee-uh-ret, pye-ret] / ˌpi əˈrɛt, pjɛˈrɛt /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

• Pierrettes
  plural

1. the female counterpart of a Pierrot, usually accompanying him, as in an entertainment or masquerade.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Pierrettes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Pierrette

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Pierrette Pierrettes

A rich community portrait unfolds as Pierrette prepares her clients’ orders and flits around town putting out fires.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

“A lot of them had to struggle having to fit into broader Mexican communities in Southern California,” said USC sociologist professor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, who co-wrote a book last year about South L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2022

Mr. Colonna’s survivors include his wife, Stéphanie, whom he married in prison in 2011, their son, Ghjaseppu, and another son, Jean-Baptiste, from his earlier relationship with Pierrette Serreri.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022

When Marine was sixteen, her mother, Pierrette, left Jean-Marie for his biographer.

From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017

Pierrette has gone—but it was not Exactly that she lied; She said she had to catch a train; "I have a date," she cried.

From A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle by Margaret Widdemer

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

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

Carmens an' Father Timeses, Pierrots an' Pierrettes, Pompadours an' Apaches was gyrating to the soft strains of the orchestra, who perspired at the piano in his shirt-sleeves.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 by Various

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

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