"Pierrot" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: Pierrette"
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          "ref": "1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book II, chapter 8:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like every other well-bred Englishman, as a Pierrot, but as Mephistopheles […]\n\"He said that the costume of Pierrot, while pleasing to the eye, lacked the authority of the Mephistopheles costume.\"",
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          "ref": "2019, Karl Toepfer, Pantomime, page 741:",
          "text": "The rest of the family then invades the studio, three boys dressed as Pierrots and three girls dressed as Pierrettes.",
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          "masquerade",
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "buffoon",
          "word": "Peĉjo"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "buffoon",
          "word": "Pedrolino"
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          "english": "Piero",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "buffoon",
          "word": "ピエロ"
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      "ipa": "/pɪəˈɹəʊ/"
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      "word": "Peĉjo"
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      "sense": "buffoon",
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      "english": "Piero",
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