pendu

/ ˈbɛnduː /

adjective

1. informal,  culturally backward

Word History and Origins

Origin of pendu¹

C21: from Punjabi pind village

Example Sentences

We put this apple detective to the test - and using sight, taste and touch alone, he quickly identified two mystery apples from Swan Barn Farm as Court Pendu Plat, a popular Victorian apple that dates back to Roman times, and a sweet cooking apple, known as Rival.

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In 2008 Jacques Le Pendu of the University of Nantes in France and his colleagues investigated an in vitro model of SARS-CoV.

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And, because most of those ways and the wastes they passed by or led to were nameless, landowning families, from generation to generation, designated them by the names that under the influence of French governesses and tutors had naturally come into being during the children’s daily promenades and frequent picnics—Chemin du Pendu, Pont des Vaches, Amerique, and so on.

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The Sops of Wine apple was introduced in 1832 in England, while the Cort Pendu Plat apples are one of the orchard’s oldest.

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He swayed his index finger back and forth like a pendu­lum when he said this.

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