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Definition of Pattened
1. a. Wearing pattens.
Definition of Pattened
1. Adjective. Wearing pattens. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pattened
1. patten [adj] - See also: patten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pattened
Literary usage of Pattened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jane Austen's Works by Jane Austen, James Edward Austen-Leigh (1882)
"Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to courtesy, or some footman in
dishabille sneaked off. Yet this was an abbey! How inexpressibly different in ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"There was a dead silence, during which the clicking of the pattened feet of some
maid at the Upper Farm was distinctly audible, and then Stephen spoke— ..."
3. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"... against the Wayland landscape, the snowy fields and great sombre pine trees
of Heard's Island, as she trod trimly, in short pattened steps that crackled ..."
4. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1916)
"... which is the beginning of the 960 Acres tract that is pattened to David Sleeth &
which is also the beginning of the 472 Acres; Our Present Surveyor ..."
5. The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1906)
"Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsey, or some footman in
dishabille sneaked off. Yet this was an Abbey! How inexpressibly different in ..."
6. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records by Charles William Manwaring (1906)
"I also give to my son William 2-3 parts of my right, interest and share in the
large tract of land pattened (patented) to sundry proprietors in Hartford and ..."
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