The word chantepleure means to sing and weep at the same time.
It comes from the French words that mean, sensibly, “sing” and “cry.”
Chantepleure is also a book by Linda Robinson, and is about three remarkable women friends who have survived four decades together, and face a momentous year in their lives.
In architecture, a chantepleure is 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.
