Riant adj. Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape. "In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant."
... the Lord of Riant is cured of his love fora beautiful widow through surprising her in the arms of ... — The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre
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