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priant

priant noun: a kneeling figure, in French sepulchral art.

Noun

priant (plural priants)

  1. A kneeling figure, in French sepulchral art.
    • page 139: It is an established fact that Anequin de Egas gave shape to the new conception of the priant in about 1467, when Juan […], the architect of the famous convent church of Guadalupe in Estramadura, died.
      page 144: We begin to ask ourselves whether the priants were intended to depict souls...1954, Henriette Eugénie s' Jacob, Idealism and Realism: A Study of Sepulchral Symbolism
    • page xiii, List of illustrations: 84. Priant of Louis XII (cast). Photograph: A. Neury, Paris. 85. Priants of Francis I (d. 1574) and Claude of France (d. 1524) […]
      page 166: The royal tombs were related to earlier French tombs which had shown kneeling figures symbolizing the soul contrasted to...1973, Kathleen Cohen, Kathleen Rogers Cohen, Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: The Transi Tomb in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Univ of California Press, →ISBN

Forms of priant

pluralpriants

Origin of priant

From French priant (“praying”).

Questions about priant

What does priant mean?
Priant means a kneeling figure, in French sepulchral art.
What part of speech is priant?
Priant is a noun.
What is the plural of priant?
The plural of priant is priants.

Words near priant in the dictionary

  1. Priam
  2. prian
  3. prianik
  4. prianiki
  5. prianiks
  6. priant
  7. priants
  8. priany
  9. Priapean
  10. Priapeans
  11. priapi

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