1. pierrot - Noun
2. Pierrot - Proper noun
a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face
Source: WordNetCompared with this art, Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is lukewarm lemonade. Ferruccio Busoni
Like a drum my heart was beating, And your kiss was sweet as wine, But the joys of love are fleeting For Pierrot and Columbine. Tom Springfield
Adopting the stage-name "Baptiste", Deburau played Pierrot, from about 1819, in a number of types of comic pantomime rustic, melodramatic, "realistic", and fantastic. Source: Internet
As far as music is concerned, it would be difficult to find a historian of Modernism who does not place Arnold Schoenberg 's 1912 song-cycle Pierrot lunaire at the very pinnacle of High-Modernist achievement. Source: Internet
And the Pierrot of popular taste also spawned a uniquely English entertainment. Source: Internet
A true fin-de-siècle mask, Pierrot paints his face black to commit robbery and murder; then, after restoring his pallor, he hides himself, terrified of his own undoing, in a snowbank forever. Source: Internet