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‖ patrin Gipsy Cant.|ˈpætrɪn|
Also erron. patteran.
[Romany ˈpatrin, in Turkish Gipsy paˈtrin, orig. ‘leaf’ (cf. Skr. patra), but now known to Eng. Gipsies only in the sense explained.]
An indication which gipsies leave of the way they have travelled, by throwing down handfuls of grass or leaves pointing in the direction taken.
1873Slang Dict., Patteran, a gipsy trail, made by throwing down a handful of grass occasionally. 1876G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto xi, ‘Your patrin? What is that?’ asked my lord. ‘The sign that none of our people will pass unnoticed.’ 1877Besant & Rice Son of Vulc. i. xi, Maybe it's the gipsy's patteran they mean. 1879Encycl. Brit. X. 617 A handful of grass or leaves,..or some such mark (patrin, ‘leaf’) to guide the stragglers of the band. 1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin 71/2 I've bin there the last three weeks on the patrin-chase, and not a patrin could I find. |