This is a French word I picked up in a history of art class--it's a sculpture of somebody dead, to ornament their tomb.
Google has quite a collection of pictures, if you're interested:
http://www.google.com/images?q=gisant&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US
fficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=kJinTLOhBMTflgeY76nCDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDUQsAQwAw&biw=1024&bih=573
Google has quite a collection of pictures, if you're interested:
http://www.google.com/images?q=gisant&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US
fficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=kJinTLOhBMTflgeY76nCDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDUQsAQwAw&biw=1024&bih=573
