pendeloque

From French pendeloque.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɒndəˈlɒk/

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pendeloque (plural pendeloques)

1. 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.

Alteration of pendeloche, from Old French pendeler (“to dangle”).

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pendeloque f (plural pendeloques)

1. pendant [from 17th c.]

• → Polish: bandelok

• “pendeloque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.