单词 | patrin |
释义 | patrinn. Originally cant. A marker made of grass, leaves, a twig, etc., left purposely by a Gypsy to indicate the direction taken. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > handfuls of grass or leaves left by gipsies patteran1843 patrin1875 1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto xi. 106 ‘Your patrin? What is that?’ asked my lord. ‘The sign that none of our people will pass unnoticed.’ 1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin 71/2 I've bin there the last three weeks on the patrin-chase, and not a patrin could I find. 1961 R. M. Patterson Buffalo Head iv. 127 You would find, if you rode past one of Paul's old camps, a light pole stuck in the ground and, suspended from it by a bit of old moccasin string, a hawk's feather fluttering in the wind. It was a sign of some sort, like the gypsy patrin. 1997 LOLApress (Nexis) 31 Oct. 48 They would leave signs at crossroads—a bunch of twigs tied with a red rag, a branch broken in a particular way, a notched bone—the signs called shpera among the Polish Gypsies (and patrin, or leaf, everywhere else, from Kosovo to Peterborough). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1875 |
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