Young Brunette Girl Posing In The Lake With A Cyan Necklace And A Pendant

A pendant (from Old French) is a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, when the ensemble may be known as a "pendant necklace". A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. In modern French "pendant" is the gerund form of “hanging” (also meaning “during”). Pendants can have several functions, which may be combined:
• Ornamentation
• Identification (i.e., religious symbols, sexual symbols, symbols of rock bands)