pleurant

English

Etymology

French, pleurant (“weeping”).

Noun

pleurant (plural pleurants)

1. A weeping figure used as an ornament on a tomb.
   • 2007 October 19, Karen Rosenberg, “Sacred Works in Secular Places”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

French

Participle

pleurant

1. present participle of pleurer

Further reading

• “pleurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.