pendeloque
English
Etymology
From French pendeloque.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɒndəˈlɒk/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
pendeloque (plural pendeloques)
- A drop-shaped diamond or other gem used as a pendant. [from 19th c.]
- 1850, “Souvernirs of Versailles, St. Cloud, Neuilly, and the Tuileries”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 27, page 176:
- A happy thought struck me; perhaps the urchin would exchange his draught for the pendeloque belonging to the ear-ring.
- 1883, Arthur Herbert Church, Precious Stones: Considered in Their Scientific and Artistic Relations, with a Catalogue of the Townshend Collection of Gems in the South Kensington Museum:
- The other forms given to faceted stones are not of sufficient importance to need description; the star-cut and the pendeloque may just be named as patterns sometimes followed in the cutting of diamonds.
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French
Etymology
Alteration of pendeloche, from Old French pendeler (“to dangle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɑ̃.dlɔk/
Audio (file)
Noun
pendeloque f (plural pendeloques)
- pendant [from 17th c.]
Descendants
- → Polish: bandelok
Further reading
- “pendeloque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.