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Meanings of riant in English

Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.

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        Usage of riant in English
        1
        Her riant health was unalterable.
        Alice of Old Vincennes
        2
        Until they had rightly appraised the value of his friendship, women had been wont to regard him with a riant curiosity.
        A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
        3
        It is what the French call un paysage riant, and I assure you, it does more than smile these lovely June mornings.
        A Hilltop on the Marne / Being Letters Written June 3-September ...
        4
        He looked from the porch upon the riant, dissipated two, and commanded and cajoled and made tremendous threats, but to no purpose.
        A Man and a Woman
        5
        021a.jpg the Lord de Riant Finding The Widow With Her Groom
        The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 3 (of 5)
        6
        The fragrant odour of the wine, O how much more dainty, pleasant, laughing (Riant, priant, friant.
        Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
        7
        'Lord God!' thought I, 'is this all?' A scene as quiet and riant as this we-have at home!
        O. T., A Danish Romance
        Riant through the time