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pend
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.
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"〔OED, online edition, draft revision December 2007, entries for ''pend, n2'' and ''pend, v2''〕
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