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(noun) - (1) He that sings and weeps both together.
--Elisha Coles' English Dictionary, 1713
(2) Name of a French poem of the 13th century addressed to those who sing in this world and shall weep in the next; hence used of a mixture or alteration of joy and sorrow. From French chanter, to sing, and pleurer, to weep. The word has several senses in modern French, "weep-hole," "flood-opening" in a wall, etc. which have not entered into English.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1893
(3) Conformyng them to the chante plure - now to synge and sodaynely to wepe.
--John Lydgate's Chronicle of Troy, 1430
January 15, 2018