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

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Pierrette Pierrettes

“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

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

From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017

Pierrette had run off with her husband’s biographer, a magazine journalist who had been living, at Le Pen’s invitation, at the family home.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2017

The school also is under new leadership with principal Pierrette Hall.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2015

“Her real name is, I believe, Pierrette Dumont, only daughter of that big jeweller in the Rue de la Paix.”

From The Count's Chauffeur by Le Queux, William

Pretty little Pierrettes in frills and pointed caps are more attractive to the cheap purchaser than ugly souls writhing in torment; and really they are quite as artistic.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

The noise had become incessant: Pierrots and Pierrettes, Harlequins and Columbines had worked themselves up into a veritable intoxication of shouts and laughter.

From The Elusive Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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

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 MacKenzie, Compton

All round the car, helter-skelter, tumbling, pushing, came Pierrots and Pierrettes, carrying lanthorns, and Harlequins bearing the torches.

From The Elusive Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness