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patterans

patterans is the plural 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

Questions about patterans

What is patterans the plural of?
Patterans is the plural of patteran.

Words near patterans in the dictionary

  1. patter
  2. patter flash
  3. patter song
  4. patter songs
  5. patteran
  6. patterans
  7. Patterdale
  8. Patterdales
  9. pattered
  10. pattered flash
  11. patterer

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