PIERROT

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• PIERROT (noun)
  The noun PIERROT has 1 sense:

1. a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face

  Familiarity information: PIERROT used as a noun is very rare.

• PIERROT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

Have you seen Pierrot’s advertisement to-day?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Scatcherd is hasty—you must take care not to offend her; Madame Pierrot is not a bad sort of person.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I understood her very well, for I had been accustomed to the fluent tongue of Madame Pierrot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I examined, too, in thought, the possibility of my ever being able to translate currently a certain little French story which Madame Pierrot had that day shown me; nor was that problem solved to my satisfaction ere I fell sweetly asleep.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The one with red cheeks is called Miss Smith; she attends to the work, and cuts out—for we make our own clothes, our frocks, and pelisses, and everything; the little one with black hair is Miss Scatcherd; she teaches history and grammar, and hears the second class repetitions; and the one who wears a shawl, and has a pocket-handkerchief tied to her side with a yellow ribband, is Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France, and teaches French.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fortunately I had had the advantage of being taught French by a French lady; and as I had always made a point of conversing with Madame Pierrot as often as I could, and had besides, during the last seven years, learnt a portion of French by heart daily—applying myself to take pains with my accent, and imitating as closely as possible the pronunciation of my teacher, I had acquired a certain degree of readiness and correctness in the language, and was not likely to be much at a loss with Mademoiselle Adela.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)