Plural of gisant; multiple sculptured or carved reclining figures on monuments or tombs.
Regular plural of 'gisant' from French 'gisant', showing how English adopted French art historical terms wholesale for tomb sculpture vocabulary.
English cathedrals are full of gisants stacked in layers—sometimes families would be carved lying peacefully side by side for centuries before being moved around or destroyed. These stones are time capsules showing who mattered, who could afford stone, and whose memory was worth preserving.
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