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† ˈPatagon Obs.
[a. Sp. patagon large clumsy foot.]
A member of a tribe of South American Indians, whence Patagonia received its name.
1579in Hakluyt's Voy. (1812) IV. 257. 1605 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 211 A Pagan (a proud Infidell, A Patagon, that tasted nought so well As Israel's bloud). 1698Froger Voy. 75 The famous Patagons whom some Authers avouch to be eight or ten feet high..: How⁓ever..the tallest among them was not above six Foot high. 1773Johnson Hebrides, Ostig in Sky, If we have not searched the Magellanick regions, let us however forbear to people them with Patagons. [1871G. C. Musters At Home w. Patagonians 162 Hide overshoes are worn besides, and the footprints thus made are really large enough to convey the idea of giants' feet, and partly explain the term ‘Patagon’, or large feet, applied to these Indians by the Spanish discoverers.] |