Proper noun
Pendennis
An unincorporated community in Kansas
"Nigel Lawson used to be known by the sobriquet of 'Smuggins'," Peter Hillmore, Pendennis, The Observer Review, 27 October 1996. Source: Internet
The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray 's novel Pendennis (1850) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established. Source: Internet