Patteran
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Patteran is a noun meaning Any of several coded signs left along a road or on a non-Roma house by one Rom to another. The most common ones consist of crossed sprigs (usually of different trees or shrubs) indicating, for example, a direction travelled.
Meaning
Any of several coded signs left along a road or on a non-Roma house by one Rom to another. The most common ones consist of crossed sprigs (usually of different trees or shrubs) indicating, for example, a direction travelled.
Example Sentences
They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside. They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterans.
Follow the Romany Patteran / Sheer to the Austral Light, / Where the besom of God is the wild South wind, / Sweeping the sea-floors white.
Word Forms
- patterans
- patrin
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trace, sign-post, signpost, roman, arrow, stripe.
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