Meanings
nounpleurant (plural pleurants)
plural pleurants
- A weeping figure used as an ornament on a tomb.
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.
2007 October 19, Karen Rosenberg, “Sacred Works in Secular Places”, in New York Times
Origin
French, pleurant (“weeping”).
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