English

Proper noun

Pierrot

1. A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume.
   • 1912 Constance Garnett (tr.), Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Book II, chapter 8

     I'll win them by politeness, and... and... show them that I've nothing to do with that Aesop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have.

   • 1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:

     And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like every other well-bred Englishman, as a Pierrot, but as Mephistopheles...

     "He said that the costume of Pierrot, while pleasing to the eye, lacked the authority of the Mephistopheles costume."

Translations

Anagrams

• pretoir

French

Etymology

Diminutive of Pierre ‎(“Peter”) via diminutive suffix +‎ -ot.

Proper noun

Pierrot m

1. Diminutive of Pierre ‎(“Peter”).
2. A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit.

Anagrams

• portier

Norman

Proper noun

Pierrot m

1. A male given name, equivalent of French Pierrot.

Related terms

• Piérotin

English

Noun

pierrot ‎(plural pierrots)

1. Alternative form of Pierrot
   • 2009 June 3, Claudia La Rocco, “With Each Youthful Step, Discoveries and Transformations”, in New York Times:

     Then came the very young, in the “Ballabile des Enfants” from “Harlequinade,” a colorful, confectionary swirl of polichinelles, pierrots and scaramouches, set to Riccardo Drigo.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pier‧rot

Noun

pierrot m ‎(plural pierrots, diminutive pierrotje n)

1. A person dressed in a Pierrot costume

Italian

Noun

pierrot m ‎(invariable)

1. A person dressed in a Pierrot costume

Anagrams

• pretori, riporte