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plural pleurants
A weeping figure used as an ornament on a tomb. quotations examples
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