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pendant
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling [syn: chandelier ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The word pendant derives from the Latin word "pendere", and Old French word "pendre", both of which translate to "to hang down". It comes in the form of a loose-hanging piece of jewellery , generally attached by a small loop to a necklace , which may be ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "loose, hanging part of anything," from Anglo-French pendaunt "hanging" (c.1300), Old French pendant (13c.), noun use of present participle of pendre "to hang," from Latin pendere "to hang," from PIE *(s)pend- , extended form of root *(s)pen- ...
Usage examples of pendant.
Parker even more when she bade me a simple adieu, and did not seek to impress upon me the virtues of this or that plow, the rakes and tines and blades of which were pendant from the ceiling in a Damoclean display.
Coudrier si le proces en ce moment pendant est fonde, il y ait une tache sur son blason.
He had a bandanna for a headband, sunglasses, a collection of silver pendants around his neck on cords, a water bottle at his waist, no shirt, baggy shorts, and Velcro-strapped sandals.
He was the only person on the island who could be trusted to do what she needed to have done: replicate the piece in her pendant and swap the two, putting his fake in the bezel while he held on to the original.
In the summer and autumn, the thirty-five-foot brugmansia is festooned with pendant yellow trumpet flowers.
Poor Coode, with a curly and melancholy pipe pendant from his mouth, was hanging over the fence.
XII Pendant que Barincq preparait le brouillon de sa lettre au baron, Anie annoncait a sa mere que, decidement, et apres un serieux examen de conscience, elle ne pouvait pas se resigner a accepter M.
There was a jade pendant which Oliver Fane had brought from China for his wife Lilian, a peach with two leaves, and a little winged creature crawling on it.
Madame Houssu se leva et ayant pris une fiole en verre blanc, elle sortit pendant que Raphaelle defaisant son chapeau et sa robe--une robe de Worth,--les accrochait a un clou, entre deux casseroles.
He fusses over the glints in the diamond pendants, the mirrored gleams of the three ropes of pearl.
Their baby eyes had opened upon a world of faded portraits and somber haircloth furniture, and their baby hands had eagerly clutched at crystal pendants on brass candlesticks gleaming out of the sacred darkness that enveloped the parlor mantel.
Celle que causa la beaute de Corysandre fut des plus vives et pendant huit jours elle fournit le sujet de toutes les conversations.
Terre, elle resta suspendue dans 1e vide pendant des jours et des jours.
Distinguished by her plain robe and the bronze serpent lemniscate pendant she wore on a leather thong around her neck, she was already surrounded by a small crowd of people seeking healing.
I rolled, snatching the pendant from her loosened grasp and snapping it from her vocollar.