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  • proper noun A surname known in England, Ireland, and Scotland.

Etymologies

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Probably from French pré (meadow), meaning a meadow dweller; from Old French prat, from Latin pratum. Another proposed source is Old English prætt (trick, cunning, astute).

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Examples

  • Lynda Pratt is a Reader in Romanticism and Director of the Centre for Regional Literature and Culture at the University of

    About this edition 2009

  • Tim Pratt is the author of the story collections Little Gods and Hart & Boot & Other Stories, the poetry collection If There Were Wolves, the novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, and an urban fantasy series about a sorceress named Marla Mason that begins with Blood Engines and continues with Poison Sleep, Dead Reign, and Spell Games.

    MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers 2009

  • Kevin Pratt, marketing manager of Cheapflights, the flight comparison website, prefers a brown leather over-the-shoulder man-bag.

    Briefcases are the new suspenders | clusterflock 2009

  • Tim Pratt is the author of the story collections Little Gods and Hart & Boot & Other Stories, the poetry collection If There Were Wolves, the novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, and an urban fantasy series about a sorceress named Marla Mason that begins with Blood Engines and continues with Poison Sleep, Dead Reign, and Spell Games.

    MIND MELD: Does The Used Book Market Help or Hurt the Publishing Industry? 2009

  • There's so much fabulous ornamentation within Pratt's world, you can get distracted by all the pretty, deadly, and downright weird things.

    Blood Engines Jes Battis 2008

  • “The River Boy” by Tim Pratt is a fairy tale about an old woman whose greatest desire was to have one last child, and about the consequences of that ungoverned desire.

    Short Stories Galore and A New Challenge 2008

  • Tim Pratt is the author of the story collections Little Gods and Hart & Boot & Other Stories, the poetry collection If There Were Wolves, the novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, and an urban fantasy series about a sorceress named Marla Mason that begins with Blood Engines and continues with Poison Sleep, Dead Reign, and Spell Games.

    July 2008 2008

  • Tim Pratt is the author of the story collections Little Gods and Hart & Boot & Other Stories, the poetry collection If There Were Wolves, the novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, and an urban fantasy series about a sorceress named Marla Mason that begins with Blood Engines and continues with Poison Sleep, Dead Reign, and Spell Games.

    MIND MELD: Worldbuilding 2008

  • Tim Pratt is not quite as good, I don't think, but then again, all I know of his work are the 3 short stories I mentioned.

    Yet more short stories 2007

  • The example of a pacifist epic cited by Pratt is Joseph Cottle's rather limp Alfred, An

    Notes on 'The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism' 2006

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