# Pendeloque

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A '''pendeloque''', from French ''pendeloque'', is a hanging often drop- or pear-shaped object or pendant used as an ornamentation,<ref>{{cite web |title=pendeloque |url=https://www.oed.com/dictionary/pendeloque_n?tab=meaning_and_use |website=www.oed.com |publisher=[Oxford English Dictionary](/source/Oxford_English_Dictionary) |access-date=11 January 2025|date=2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pendeloque |url=https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/pendeloque/ |website=www.cnrtl.fr |publisher=[Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales](/source/Centre_national_de_ressources_textuelles_et_lexicales) |access-date=11 January 2025}}</ref> such as drop-shaped [pendant earrings](/source/Earring),<ref>{{cite web |title=Pendeloque |url=https://www.langantiques.com/university/pendeloque-2/?srsltid=AfmBOooZEnq9CDTh_hW0PW4hgraA0UufYF9amewxIRTNpckyNZf500uX |website=www.langantiques.com |publisher=Lang Antiques |access-date=11 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Benchley |first1=Amanda |title=In Her Dramatic Italian Home, Annette Klein Shows Us Her Cache of Historic Earrings |url=https://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/annette-klein/ |website=www.1stdibs.com |publisher=Introspective Magazine |access-date=11 January 2025}}</ref> and specific pear- and drop-shaped parts of [chandelier](/source/chandelier)s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Langhamer |first1=Antonín |title=The Legend of Bohemian Glass: A Thousand Years of Glassmaking in the Heart of Europe |date=2003 |publisher=[Tigris](/source/Tigris) |isbn=8086062112 |page=262 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwLCa_h3hTEC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=pendeloque |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pendeloque |website=www.merriam-webster.com |publisher=[Merriam-Webster](/source/Merriam-Webster) |access-date=11 January 2025}}</ref> The term is also used in describing the specific [pendeloque cut](/source/pendeloque_cut) for gemstone [cutting](/source/Cut_(gems)).<ref>{{cite web |last=Kuiper |first=Kathleen |title=Pendeloque |url=https://www.britannica.com/art/pendeloque |website=www.britannica.com |publisher=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |access-date=11 January 2025}}</ref>

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:1E4A4335.jpg|Pendeloque-shaped earrings.
File:Earrings (France), 19th century (CH 18316861).jpg|Pendeloque-shaped earrings, with [pendeloque cut](/source/pendeloque_cut) yellow [topaz](/source/topaz)es and small [rose cut](/source/rose_cut) [diamond](/source/diamond)s.
File:Chandelier-2381625.jpg|Leaf-shaped pendeloque prisms on a chandelier.
File:Eighteen-light chandelier MET DP154307.jpg|Drop-shaped pendeloque prisms on a chandelier.
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [Briolette](/source/Briolette)

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