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cocasse (iou) and pendant (iou)


cocasse (iou)



cocasse adjective. M19.
[French.]
Droll; ridiculous.

pendant (iou)



pendant noun. ]'p?nd(?)nt, in sense 5b 'p?n?nt, in sense 9 usu. pd (pl. same) Also pendent. ME.
[Old & mod. French, use as noun of pres. pple of pendre hang, from Latin pendere: see -ANT1.]
I. Something that hangs or is suspended.
Architecture.
a. An ornamental projection, spec. a boss, carved with a stem so as to hang down esp. from a vault or ceiling or (in a staircase) from the bottom of a projecting newel. ME.
b. In an open timber roof, a supporting wooden post placed against a wall, usu. resting on a corbel and attached to the hammerbeam or the principal rafter. Also pendant post. LME.
a. In pl. The testicles. ME-M17.
b. Botany. An anther. M17-L18.
A loosely hanging jewel, bead, etc., attached to clothing etc. as an ornament; spec. a dangling earring, the jewel etc. in such an earring. Now chiefly, a loosely hanging jewel etc. attached to a chain and forming a necklace. LME.
E. F. Benson I want to wear the moon as a pendant round my neck.
b. The ornamented end of a belt or girdle designed to hang down from the buckle. LME-L16.
a. A plumb-line. rare. LME-M16.
b. A pendulum. Only in M17.
c. A hanging light, esp. one designed to hang from the ceiling. M19.
A. Ayckbourn She switches out the pendant, depriving Annie of..her reading light. P. Fitzgerald The pendants of Lalique glass glimmering from the high ceilings.
Nautical.
a. A short line hanging from the head of a mast, yard-arm, or clew of a sail, having a block or a thimble spliced in the end for attaching tackles. LME.
b. = PENNANT noun1 1b. L15.
= PENNON 1. M16-M17.
II.
Slope, inclination. ME-M17.
III.
A thing by which something is hung or suspended. Now spec. the shank and ring of a pocket-watch. L16.
a. A parallel, match, or companion to a thing, esp. in a picture. L18.
Independent Portrait of the Painter Hendrick Martensz Sorgh and its pendant, a portrait of Sorgh's wife.
b. An additional or supplementary statement, piece of Writing, etc., forming a complement. M19.
B. Magee Conjectures and Refutations..can be seen as a pendant to The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
pendanted adjective (Architecture) having pendants M17.