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† patoun Obs. rare.
[Origin and meaning uncertain. Possibly = F. pâton lump or bolus of dough, pellet of paste to feed chickens, f. pâte paste.
In the Ben Jonson passage some compare petun, obs. name of tobacco. Gifford suggests ‘moulding of the tobacco, which was then always cut small, into some fantastic or fashionable form for the pipe’. The word in quot. 1495 may be different.]
[1495Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 57 Thare salbe gevin to our souerane In xxiii in wyne, xix of patoune iiii lib. 10s., xii lib. skorcheatis, xxxvi s.] 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. iv, His villainous Ganymede and he have been droning a tobacco-pipe there ever since yesterday noon... They have hired a chamber and all, private, to practise in, for the making of the patoun,..and a number of other mysteries not yet extant. |