lanterne

A curious feature found in many churchyards from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, especially in France, is the so-called lanterne des morts, a stone erection sometimes twenty or thirty feet high, surmounted by a lantern and presenting a general resemblance to a small lighthouse.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Otherwise I would pine for the Tour de France, that annual celebration of mountain-top lunacy, in which one can flash one's vocabulary — peloton, poursuivants, lanterne rouge — with gay abandon.

OK, if the French play up, the croissant gets it | Alex Clark 2011

- For those who make no difference between the French words potiron & citrouille, I suppose they might call a Jack-o-lantern -- un “potiron lanterne”, (I assume the same people would also say that it is “un potiron lumineux”)

potiron - French Word-A-Day 2008

Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) took second at 19 seconds with teammate Bert Grabsch — the lanterne rouge — third at 1: 48.

Contador withstands challenge from Schleck, defends yellow, as Cancellara wins Tour de France TT stage 2010

There may be no remedy short of “les aristocrates à la lanterne!”

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » What About the Rest of Us? 2009

His Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens (September 1789) supported the bourgeois-democratic reforms of the National Assembly and expounded republican ideals.

Names 2007

Has two time lanterne rouge Wim Vansevenant been tested lately?

Digging Deep: Turning a Positive Into a Positive BikeSnobNYC 2008

For those who make no difference between the French words potiron & citrouille, I suppose they might call a Jack-o-lantern -- un “potiron lanterne”, I assume the same people would also say that it is “un potiron lumineux”

potiron - French Word-A-Day 2008

Jack-o'-lantern in French = une “citrouille lanterne”.

potiron - French Word-A-Day 2008

Not just political survival, I mean "a la lanterne" should they lose grip on power.

New South Wales Politics Zoe Brain 2008