pleurant

Etymology

French, pleurant (“weeping”).

noun

  1. 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. October 19, 2007, Karen Rosenberg, “Sacred Works in Secular Places”, in New York Times

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