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Definition of Patterers
1. patterer [n] - See also: patterer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patterers
Literary usage of Patterers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast by John Camden Hotten (1872)
"... and patterers. Both classes are great talkers. The first sing or chaunt through
the public thoroughfares ballads—political and humorous—carols, ..."
2. The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe (1868)
"THE Patterers. BY this term we refer to the street vendors of the city, who hawk
their wares through the public thoroughfares. ..."
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