| 释义 |
patten /ˈpat(ə)n /noun historicalA shoe or clog with a raised sole or set on an iron ring, worn to raise one’s feet above wet or muddy ground when walking outdoors.The April rain from last night had made the ground muddy and she had no pattens to keep her shoes out of the mud....- Beginning in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, shoes were worn with pattens - carved wooden supports with pedestals under the heel and ball - to protect the shoes.
- She borrowed a pair of pattens to walk to the waterside, pretending to visit her grandmother.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French patin, perhaps from patte 'paw'. Rhymes baton, batten, fatten, flatten, harmattan, Manhattan, Mountbatten, paten, pattern, platen, Saturn, slattern |