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PIERROT (Ital. Pedrolino)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 592 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERROT (Ital. Pedrolino)  , the name given to the leading See also:character in the See also:French See also:pantomime plays since the 18th See also:century; transferred from the See also:Italian See also:stage, and revived especially in See also:recent times . He is always in See also:white, both See also:face and See also:costume, with a loose and daintily clownish garb, and is represented as of a freakish disposition . See also:Modern See also:pierrot plays have converted the pierrot into a romantic and even pathetic figure .

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