gisant
French
editPronunciation
editParticiple
editgisant
Adjective
editgisant (feminine gisante, masculine plural gisants, feminine plural gisantes)
- lying (in a horizontal position)
Noun
editgisant m (plural gisants)
- recumbent statue, tomb effigy (relief or statue on the top of a tomb depicting the deceased lying in death)
Further reading
edit- “gisant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.