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Definition of Pendants
1. pendant [n] - See also: pendant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pendants
Literary usage of Pendants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Arts in Early England by Gerard Baldwin Brown (1915)
"Many pendants have in this way already come under notice in the last chapter and
... Artistic pendants especially those jewelled in the Kentish fashion or ..."
2. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"No turquoise pendants were found. The pointed lignite objects (fig. ...
Shell pendants were common, but are less varied in shape than those of stone, ..."
3. Indian Basketry by George Wharton James (1903)
"144 illustrates the use of other varieties of pendants. ... It serves to indicate
the method of employing tassels and clustered pendants, which in this case ..."
4. Schliemann's Excavations: An Archaeological and Historical Study by Karl Schuchardt, Eugénie Sellers Strong (1891)
"The pendants, then, hung point downwards, and with their tassels must have produced
a gay and rich effect. It now remains to settle how they were worn. ..."
5. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by Confucius, James Legge (1885)
"YU 3AO OR THE JADE-BEAD pendants OF THE ROYAL CAP1. SECTION I.. ... wore (the
cap) with the twelve long pendants of beads of jade hanging down from its top ..."
6. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Discrimination Between Large Inclusions and Roof pendants.—In effecting the
uncovering of a batholith, denudation isolates the roof pendants, if there were ..."
7. Primitive Art in Egypt by Jean Capart (1905)
"Some of these pendants are of stone ; others are hollow, ... pendants. Showing the
imitation of claws and of horns, decorated with incised or painted lines. ..."
8. Primitive Art in Egypt by Jean Capart (1905)
"Some of these pendants are of stone ; others are hollow, ... pendants. Showing the
imitation of claws and of horns, decorated with incised or painted lines ..."
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