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, a gifted seamstress and a mother of three, can’t seem to catch a break.
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
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
And there fluttered out three strangely exquisite children, two frail, white satin Pierrots and a white satin Pierrette.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
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
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
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
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