PATTEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patten mean? 

• PATTEN (noun)
  The noun PATTEN has 1 sense:

1. footwear usually with wooden soles

  Familiarity information: PATTEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATTEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Footwear usually with wooden soles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

clog; geta; patten; sabot

Hypernyms ("patten" is a kind of...):

footgear; footwear (covering for a person's feet)

 Context examples 

I stood in a window, and looked across the ancient street at the opposite houses, recalling how I had watched them on wet afternoons, when I first came there; and how I had used to speculate about the people who appeared at any of the windows, and had followed them with my eyes up and down stairs, while women went clicking along the pavement in pattens, and the dull rain fell in slanting lines, and poured out of the water-spout yonder, and flowed into the road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When Lady Russell not long afterwards, was entering Bath on a wet afternoon, and driving through the long course of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden Place, amidst the dash of other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays, the bawling of newspapermen, muffin-men and milkmen, and the ceaseless clink of pattens, she made no complaint.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)