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A corruption of patron. As a patron is a guide, and ought to be an example, so the word has come to signify an artistic model. (French, patron Latin, patrõnus.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Patrick’s Cross (St.)
Patrick’s Grave (St.)
Patrick’s Monument (St.)
Patrick’s Purgatory (St.)
Patrick and the Serpent (St.)
Patrico or Pater-cove
Patroclos
Patten
Pattens-Money (Chapins de la Reina)
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Pattern
Pattieson (Mr. Peter)
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Paul Pry
Paul and Virginia
Paul the Hermit (St.)
Paul of the Cross
Paul’s Man (A)
Paul’s Pigeons
Paul’s Walkers
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