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Examples
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She was deathly pale, with hair like the night, ebon, and a face almost as exaggeratedly expressive as a tragic pierrot's.
The Way of Ambition Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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He had brushed his hair and rearranged his tie, and was about to put on the pierrot's costume of white satin with big buttons of black velvet which he had worn at the _bal blanc_ at Mentone about a week before, when the page handed him another note.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo William Le Queux 1895
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The stockings and shoes came in for close inspection, also the comical pierrot's hat, which he fitted to the dead man's head for a moment.
The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Percy James Brebner 1893
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"But why should he wait until the man had got into the pierrot's dress before murdering him?" said Zena.
The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Percy James Brebner 1893
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The dead man was still in the pierrot's dress -- I had arranged this should be so, wishing to afford the professor every facility in his investigation.
The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Percy James Brebner 1893
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He was done to death, therefore, during the morning probably, when for some reason he had visited the tent, and for some reason had put on his pierrot's dress.
The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Percy James Brebner 1893
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Quarles undid a small brown paper parcel -- I had wondered what he had brought with him -- and produced the pierrot's hat.
The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Percy James Brebner 1893
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She was pretty, too, and her scarlet dress with its white pompons, and her pierrot's hat to match, suited her to perfection.
The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Percy James Brebner 1893
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_ at the very bottom of the wall lay a little woollen pompon or tassel, just the kind of pompon that gives a finish to a pierrot's shoes.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol William John Locke 1896
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"He's got a head like a pierrot's cap and it's as bald as a fivepenny egg, when it ought to be beautifully rounded and covered with crisp curly hair.
Malcolm Sage, Detective Herbert George Jenkins 1899
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