patrixn.
/ˈpeɪtrɪks/, U.S. /ˈpeɪtrɪks/ A punch, pattern, or model from which a mould or matrix is formed in type-founding, pottery, etc.
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1883 Times 24 Mar. 12 First making a model in wax or clay, and then cutting a similar model in relief in steel, which is hardened and tempered, and is known as the hub or patrice.
1885 Manch. Examiner 22 June 5/7 The edges are filed off, and the patrix removed from the matrix.
1939 Hesperia 8 303 Bielefeld, who had not seen our plaque, calls it a patrix, or original from which the matrix, or mould, was taken. But it is not, as an original patrix must be, handmade.
1984 Graphic Arts Monthly (Nexis) 56 133 The bands were really bars, looking a little like ornamental skewers marked with dies or patrices of all the needed letters, figures, and punctuation.
1997 H. Hoffmann Sotades 157 A number of alterations distinguish south-Italian ‘Sotadeans’ from the Athenian mastermould or patrix.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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