a. [ad. F. larmoyant, pres. pple. of larmoyer to be tearful, f. larme tear.] Given to tears, lachrymose.
[1813. Byron, Lett., 2 Oct., in Moore, Life (1830), II. 430. But thou know’st I can be a right merry and conceited fellow, and rarely ‘larmoyant.’]
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 81. Ellen and I, although not at all larmoyante sort of people, had much ado not to cry.
1897. Naturalist, 270. Another strange face, though not so larmoyant, provocative of laughter unto tears.
