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

Pierrette, a gifted seamstress and a mother of three, can’t seem to catch a break.

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

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

Permit the three women Balsage to embark without delay upon the Jeune Pierrette.

From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various

Overcome with sudden superstitious fear, Pierrots and Pierrettes, drummer and trumpeters turned and fled in every direction.

From The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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

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

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

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 Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy