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patten

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pat·ten  (ptn)
n.
Any one of various types of wooden-soled footwear, such as a sandal, shoe, or clog, worn to increase one's height or to keep one's feet out of the mud.
[Middle English patin, from Old French, perhaps from pate, paw, hoof; see patois.]
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Noun1.pattenpatten - footwear usually with wooden soles
clog, geta, sabot
footgear, footwear - covering for a person's feet
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He was an ingenious workman, and made excellent pattens; nay, the very patten with which he was knocked down was his own workmanship.
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In doing which she lost her temper, or mislaid it for an instant; for, the water being uncomfortably cold, and in that slippy, slushy, sleety sort of state wherein it seems to penetrate through every kind of substance, patten rings included-- had laid hold of Mrs.
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