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priant

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From French priant (“praying”).

noun priants

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 or

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@misc{priant_2026,
  title = {priant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/priant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}