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  • noun Plural form of patten.

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Examples

  • On her head she set a crown of red gold, inlaid with pearls and gems and she tripped in pattens of cloth of gold, embroidered with fresh pearls284 and adorned with all manner precious stones.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Smudges left on Android touch screens leave tell-tale signs that can often be used to recover password pattens used to lock the phones, according to research presented earlier this week.

    The Register 2010

  • I choose to NOT hunt over a food plot or bait, but in turn plant and bait for my wife and kids because they don't have the skill to scout and find pattens that the deer are doing so I am trying to lure them closer for the box stand hunter.

    Food Plots Vs. Baiting 2009

  • But I have no fever and, worse, the pattens I wore to venture out to the chapel are still beside my bed, lying where I had kicked them off, mute evidence that what I remember truly did occur.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • I choose to NOT hunt over a food plot or bait, but in turn plant and bait for my wife and kids because they don't have the skill to scout and find pattens that the deer are doing so I am trying to lure them closer for the box stand hunter.

    Food Plots Vs. Baiting 2009

  • But I have no fever and, worse, the pattens I wore to venture out to the chapel are still beside my bed, lying where I had kicked them off, mute evidence that what I remember truly did occur.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • Wrapped in the fur cloak, I remove my silk chamber slippers and allow Cecil to help me don a pair of leather pattens.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • When he does not, I give in to irresistible temptation and, having kicked off my pattens, slip under the covers with him.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • When he does not, I give in to irresistible temptation and, having kicked off my pattens, slip under the covers with him.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • Wrapped in the fur cloak, I remove my silk chamber slippers and allow Cecil to help me don a pair of leather pattens.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

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