patten

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Wow a great piece!! your rhyming patten is a brilliant effect ^^ you could of had more time, if you had needed it ^^

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  1. noun Any one of various types of wooden-soled footwear, such as a sandal, shoe, or clog, worn to increase one's height or to keep one's feet out of the mud.

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  • Try double click on the hatch, changing to a different hatch patten and then change back and it should then refer to the new —  All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
  • MVC is a design patten that separates the business logic from the interface, and provides a recipe for quickly and efficiently building applications. —  The Register
  • Enfin, ha tuge 'si Gerry Perez gi i lichå-ña gi iya PDN put i patten kottura put i prigråman Guåhu Guåhan. —  guampdn.com - Local News
  • Additional to the thoughts above, the core formation building is looking potentially like a head and shoulders patten. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • My six year old runs the table from dresses to pants to shorts to tee shirts to tutus, and flip flops to patten leather to mary janes. —  Celebrity Baby Blog
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  1. Middle English patin, from Old French, perhaps from pate, paw, hoof; see patois.

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  1. Formerly also pattin, pattine, paten; early modern English pateyn, from Middle English paten, from Old French patin, a clog, footstall of a pillar (French patin), a clog, a skate), from pate, French patte, a paw, foot: see patte, paw.
  2. from patten, n.
 

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