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On the theatre's roof the four actors who perform Made in China's Get Stuff Break Free line up like latter-day pierrots.

From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2012

The tide was so low that nobody was bathing, and weed-capped rocks stood out of the water; and after they had paddled a little Doris suggested that they should go and listen to the pierrots.

From Half-Past Bedtime by Bashford, H. H.

"Some one of those funny pierrots is Ethel Blue, but you can't distinguish her."

From Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

We listened for some time to an open-air concert, given by the pierrots.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Men going up to the lines in lorries stared out through masks of dust which made then look like pierrots.

From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip