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- not comparableWearing pattens.
Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some footman in dishabille sneaked off. Yet this was an abbey!
1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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pattened. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pattened
“pattened.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pattened. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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