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patrin

patrin is the alternative form of patteran.

Meaning of patteran

Noun

patteran (plural patterans)

  1. Any of several coded signs left along a road or on a non-Roma house by one Rom to another. The most common ones consist of crossed sprigs (usually of different trees or shrubs) indicating, for example, a direction travelled.
    • Follow the Romany Patteran / Sheer to the Austral Light, / Where the besom of God is the wild South wind, / Sweeping the sea-floors white.1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Gipsy Trail, Boston: Alfred Bartlett, published 1909, verse 8

Forms of patrin

pluralpatrins

Questions about patrin

What is patrin the alternative form of?
Patrin is the alternative form of patteran.

Words near patrin in the dictionary

  1. patrimonialization
  2. patrimonially
  3. patrimonies
  4. Patrimonio
  5. patrimony
  6. patrin
  7. Patrington
  8. patrinoside
  9. patrins
  10. patriolatry
  11. patriological

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