pleurant
English
Etymology
French, pleurant (“weeping”).
Noun
pleurant (plural pleurants)
- A weeping figure used as an ornament on a tomb.
- 2007 October 19, Karen Rosenberg, “Sacred Works in Secular Places”, in New York Times:
- Thought to be the work of the master sculptor Jean de Brecquessent, she is one of only a few of the 14 pleurants to have survived the tomb’s destruction during the French Revolution.
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French
Participle
pleurant
- present participle of pleurer
Further reading
- “pleurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.