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Pend

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Pend is a Scottish architectural term referring to a passageway that passes through a building, often from a street through to a courtyard or 'back court', and typically designed for vehicular rather than exclusively pedestrian access.^[1]

A pend is distinct from a vennel or a close, as it has rooms directly above it, whereas vennels and closes tend not to be covered over and are typically passageways between separate buildings. However a 'close' also means a common entry to multi-dwelling tenement properties in Scotland.

The OED suggests that the etymology of the word is probably related to the archaic verb pend - "arch, arch over, vault", this in turn being derived from the French pendre, Latin pendēre "to hang", (from which also derives the word pendulum).^[2]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glossary/pend.html |title=Conservation Glossary, entry for "pend" |author = Town and Regional Planning Programme, University of Dundee|work= |accessdate=2008-05-12}}
2. ^OED, online edition, draft revision December 2007, entries for pend, n² and pend, v²' '

2 : Scottish architecture|Architectural elements

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