pleure-pain m (plural pleure-pain)
- (obsolete) a miser, especially one who withholds food from themselves or others
1617, Jacques Olivier, Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes[1]:C’est un pleure-pain qui a regret de manger son bien pour vivre, […]- Such a Pinch-belly, that he grudgeth himself sustenance,
