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pendant

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Searchable Lemmata: pendaunt (ME), pendant (AF), pendent (OScots), pendant (MdE).
Alternate Forms: penand, penauntis, pendand, pendaund, pendauns, pendauntes, pendaunth, pendent, pendunz, pennants, pinnaund, pondant.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Decoration; jewel, bead, tassel or similar ornament hanging from a garment or other piece of clothing; a hanging ornament, often part of a necklace. An ornament hanging from a poitrel. [Also used in architectural, geographical, nautical, and other contexts]. May be some overlap with the folllowing sense.(ante 1400 still in current use)
1. Silk werkez ... were enbrauded abof, wyth bryddes & fly3es, With gay gaudi of grene ... Þe pendauntes of his payttrure, þe proude cropure, His molaynes & alle þe metail anamayld was þenne Arthurian, Heroic, Poetic, Romance. (work: c1390?) [MED Gawain ((Nero A.10) 167-168) circa 1400]
2. Lat neuer þis faiþles folke with fi3t vs wynne Hors ne harnays ... ne pendauntes [vr. pendande] ende Heroic, Poetic, Romance. (dating uncertain; work: a1400) [MED Siege Jerus.(1) ((LdMisc 656) 511) ante 1450]
3. [33] ... Pendulum: a Pendaunt ... [39] ... Penularius: anglice, a parmenter or a scynnere. Lexicon. [MED Trin-C.LEDict. ((Trin-C O.5.4) 601/33-39) circa 1450]
c.f.: pendulus
ME, MdE; Primarily Romance.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) Decoration; specifically, an ornament attached to or suspended from the hanging end of a belt, girdle or garter; the hanging end itself, often decorative; a buckle or similar; (also, the testes). May be some overlap with the previous sense.(circa 1250 still in current use)
1. De la ceynture le pendaunt Passe par my le mordaunt (M.E. bokel) BIBB (A) 300va [AND BIBB ((A) 300va) circa 1250]
2. [30] ... j baselard ... [34] ... Ad faciendum vnum jupoun de taffata blu ... Pro corpore Regis ... garteriis paratis cum boucles et pendentes de argento deaurato. ... [35] ... Ad faciendum vnum jupoun de stuff ad arma de armis Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.31 (30-35) 1345/1349]
3. [507] ... j goune de sanguino frisio, una cum dagges ... Item, pro factura j chape dicti cultelli et j pendant ad zonam de albo et viridi ... v s. xj d. ... [508] ... Pro j corps de albo et viridi serico pro le waste ... iiij s. iiij d. Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Wardrobe Acc.Rich.II in Archaeol.62 (507-508) circa 1394]
4. Eche man ... takes gerdeles of riche barres With bokeles of gold and fair pendaunt Wel anamayled with the mordaunt Heroic, Historic. (work: c1400) [MED Ld.Troy ((LdMisc 595) 8243) circa 1425]
c.f.: buckle
AF, ME, MdE, OScots; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1c(n.) Accessory; streamer or pennant.(circa 1470)
1. [76/26] ... They come mekely out of the cite, al nakid saue theire pryue clothis ... [79/14] ... That dragon was sett so high that men might wele se it iiij myle, and about his wyngis there were penauntis [F panonciaus] of siluer and of silk of diuerse colours. Biblical/Hagiographic. [MED Bible F. ((Cleve-W q091.92-C468) 76/26-79/14) circa 1470]
c.f.: pennon, pencel
ME, MdE; Primarily Biblical/Hagiographic.
Sex: N/A    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, AF pendaunt, pendant; cf. Central French pendant (a hanging belt ornament).
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