patteran

English

Alternative forms

patrin

Etymology

From Romani patrin (“leaf”), perhaps specifically from an inflected form like Vlax Romani pateryánsa.

Noun

patteran (plural patterans)

Any of several coded signs left along a road or on a non-Roma house by one Rom to another. The most common ones consist of crossed sprigs (usually of different trees or shrubs) indicating, for example, a direction travelled.
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Gipsy Trail, Boston: Alfred Bartlett. (1909), verse 8,
  Follow the Romany Patteran / Sheer to the Austral Light, / Where the besom of God is the wild South wind, / Sweeping the sea-floors white.
- 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road,
  They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside. They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterans.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:indication

References

Follow the Romany Patteran by Virginia Teitge, The English Journal: Vol. 29, No. 3 (March, 1940), pp. 206-211.
Along the Gypsy Trails in the Mountains; Sign of the "Patteran" by Which the Amateur Seeks a Camping Place for a Secure Night's Rest — Joy of the care-free Life in the Summer., The New York Times: August 11, 1912, pX2.

单词	patteran
释义	patteran English Alternative forms patrin Etymology From Romani patrin (“leaf”), perhaps specifically from an inflected form like Vlax Romani pateryánsa. Noun patteran (plural patterans) Any of several coded signs left along a road or on a non-Roma house by one Rom to another. The most common ones consist of crossed sprigs (usually of different trees or shrubs) indicating, for example, a direction travelled. 1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Gipsy Trail, Boston: Alfred Bartlett. (1909), verse 8, Follow the Romany Patteran / Sheer to the Austral Light, / Where the besom of God is the wild South wind, / Sweeping the sea-floors white. 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside. They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterans. Synonyms See also Thesaurus:indication References Follow the Romany Patteran by Virginia Teitge, The English Journal: Vol. 29, No. 3 (March, 1940), pp. 206-211. Along the Gypsy Trails in the Mountains; Sign of the "Patteran" by Which the Amateur Seeks a Camping Place for a Secure Night's Rest — Joy of the care-free Life in the Summer., The New York Times: August 11, 1912, pX2.
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