chantepleure

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  1. Alternate singing and weeping. See etymology. I fare as doth the song of chantepleure; For now I pleyn, and now I pley. Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, 1. 323.
  2. In architecture, a narrow vertical hole or slit in a wall, to let the overflow of a stream or any other water that may collect pass through.

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  1. Middle English chantepleure, from Old French chantepleure, chanteplure, chanteplore, feminine, lamentation, mourning, the chanting of the office of the dead, properly ‘she who sings and weeps,’ the name of a famous poem of the 13th century (also called Pleurechante), addressed to those who sing in this world but will weep in the next (cf. chantepleure, masculine, the singer who started the tune in the songs sung in comedies); hence, with the notion of ‘weeper,’ the latter application to a gardener's water-pot, and, as in modern F., to a funnel, tap, outlet, vent; from chanter (from Latin cantare), sing, + pleurer, plurer, modern F. pleurer (from Latin plorare), weep.
 

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