Pend Oreille
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Pend Oreille, Idaho/USA A lake and a river that also flows through Washington State. Both take their name from the French
Pend d'Oreille for the Kalispel people. They wore ear pendants (in French,
pendant d'oreille) and thus were given the name ‘Hanging Ear’.
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