英语词汇“patten”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

The Bolt App Lock lets you add additional security measures like PIN codes, fingerprint recognition, or pattens, to apps you don’t want others to easily access. Facebook’s data-collecting VPN company has found a way to collect even more data 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

This poor man has distorted hands instead of feet, and he moves about on pattens or wooden clogs strapped to his hands and legs. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z

She watched the woman of the cottage pass in and out with pail and pattens, and by-and-by she had to parry her questions. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z

"Here's a mess!" she said, throwing down the pattens and looking about her with disgust. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

Only yesterday a lady was telling me how her mother was near losing her life in the mud of the chief street, leaving behind her the English pattens of which she was so proud. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z

It is a wooden over-shoe with raised sole and high wooden heel instead of the iron ring under English pattens. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z

For a century and a half unconscious hobnails and pattens have ground the nameless stones above him, while mediocrities in marble230 have thronged our public haunts. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z

In wet weather he carried a large umbrella and walked on pattens. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z

Anyways, there are some pattens, so that you can get about--there's as good as you have gone on pattens before now! Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

There was a clattering of pattens in the stony lanes as children hurried to the Baptism. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z

The women in that region wear a kind of patten in winter to keep them above the snow. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z

“Why then Divil be in my patten if I would not go back to Donnybrook and Dublin, hoist the Orange cockade, and become as good an Orange boy as ever.” Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z

Presently returning, less the pattens: and a good deal less, for they were tall and Mrs. Peerybingle was but short: she set the Kettle on the fire. The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home 2011-10-02T02:00:12.587Z

And she clattered abruptly away, and Henrietta was left to patten her road to the pump and back, and afterwards to finish her toilette in what shivering comfort she might. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

You'll be draggled up to your chin, if you walk; put in case you haven't got your umbrella, and your pattens. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z

But her quick peal of laughter was checked when I sprang up to chasten her, and she fled on her pattens, but I caught her around the corner of the house under the lilacs. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z

“In pattens I am, sir,” she said, quickly. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z

She looks taller than ever, but wears pattens to keep her feet from the wet flags. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z

With a jerk she disengaged her shoes from the pattens, dropped the broom, and made for the door of her room, with such dignity as her kilted skirt left her. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

Everything in this kitchen was absolutely bright and spotless, as clean as a cat in pattens, except the ceiling, darkened by fumes of gas. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z

In pattens she tripped about the slushy yard, her thick, bright hair pegged loosely, and her child's bosom and arms as white as the snow she stepped on. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z

A similar contrivance, with the addition of an iron ring, leather strap and toe-cap, is still sometimes worn by farm servants, and is called a patten. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z

She carried in a tray of refreshment—bread, butter, cheese, milk, and honey, and had adjusted the sleeves of her gown, straightened her hair, put on a clean apron, and taken off her pattens. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z

She struck on the half-open door, and a pair of pattens clanked across the kitchen flags. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

"We are seeing impressive pattens," and positive comments from companies including Cisco Systems Inc, Lieberman said. 2010-02-05T23:39:00Z

I was however guided by the latter, and wore no pattens. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc.

And then suddenly she jumped up, and tore out of the room as fast as her clattering pattens would permit. The Undying Past

Wooden clogs and pattens are as bad as the thick shoes of the country people. Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress

From the kitchen, where the jacks were turning, firelight streamed across the yard, and pattens clicked, and dogs occasionally yelped; and now and again Mrs. Gilson's voice clacked strenuously. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

What takes my fancy is the girls clinkin' to and from the scullery in those pattens they wear. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune

We now chose the ordinary route, breasting the slope until we reached the cluster of chalets, under the projecting eave of one of which the men halted and applied "pattens" to their feet. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc.

Saturday.—Grandfather took us down street to be measured for some new patten leather shoes at Mr. Ambler’s. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl

The child turned sorrowfully away, and the click of her pattens was heard on the stone pavement getting fainter and fainter in the distance. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days

Then with a final look round she went out, her pattens clinked across the court, and Henrietta heard the key turned in the outer door. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

So good was the effect that, on the doctor's departure, she threw his pills out of the window, and putting on pattens, took her cane and went away through the slush to see Margaret. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington

I stated this emphatically, but the men adhered to their pattens, and before I reached the Montanvert I had reason to commend their practice as preferable to my theory. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc.

My feet are all right any way with my new patten leather shoes on but I shall have to look out for my head. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl

Goloshes had not then come into use, and women wore in muddy weather pattens or clogs. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself

At length she was about to venture out at no matter what cost, when the door of the yard opened, and the jailor's wife came stumbling through the snow on a pair of pattens. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

The long paws were shod with a species of pattens, so big they seemed like miniature tables, and these pattens were painted scarlet. The City Curious

When she returns at night, she appears, if the weather happens to be doubtful, in a calash; and her servant in pattens, follows half behind and half at her side, with a lantern. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time

This morning we had on our new white dresses that Miss Rosewarne made and new summer hats and new patten leather shoes and our mitts. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl

Came the priest of the pattens, and the clerk of the bells. The Irish Fairy Book

Then she wheeled about so sharply that, unused to pattens, she stumbled and all but fell. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

Smaly began to understand why it was that the Confectioner walked about on high pattens, and why the Rats wore boots. The City Curious

Now and again ladies pass in their pattens, a maid perhaps protecting them with an umbrella, for flakes of snow are falling discreetly. Quality Street A Comedy

But Kings and mighty Princes of the world, By letter pattens rob both Sea and Land. The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge

It was oil skin and rubber for the men; it was cloaks and pattens and umbrellas for the women. An Orkney Maid

For a long minute the distant clatter of Modest Ann's tongue, and the clink of pattens in the yard, were the only sounds that broke the lemon-laden silence of the room. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

Occasionally a dripping umbrella hurried past, showing nothing but thin legs in tights and top-boots, or thick ones in worsteds and pattens. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844

I suddenly felt it while putting on my pattens. Quality Street A Comedy

My feet are all right anyway with my new patten leather shoes on, but I shall have to look out for my head. Introduction to the Science of Sociology

Very handsome gilt combs held up her rippled hair, and a large red-riding-hood cloak covered her from the crowning bow of her hair to the little French pattens that protected her black 82 satin slippers. An Orkney Maid

The rest walked upon clattering pattens, like a French heel set by the cobbler’s mistake at the instep. The Readjustment

Note extension strapping applied to affected leg, and patten under sound foot. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

With your permission, Miss Susan, I shall put on my pattens. Quality Street A Comedy

An old woman comes tottering by on high pattens, very comfortably and nicely clad. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot

The mode by which these pattens served to sustain the horse is capable of easy explanation, and it will be observed that the rationale likewise explains the floating of a railway train. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

When in my gilded coach I ride, My Lady, at his Lordship's side, How will I laugh at all I meet Clattering in pattens down the street! The Children's Garland from the Best Poets

When the affection is unilateral, advantage may be derived from a Thomas' or other form of splint, along with a patten and crutches; in bilateral cases, from the use of crutches alone. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

One of the ladies had to go and ask; but she put on pattens. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

A pair of brass-bound pattens hinged in the middle, once worn instead of overshoes by some colonial ancestress, sat alongside a pair of oriental sandals. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York

These pattens were fitted on by means of a screw apparatus, which met in front of the foot and was easily fastened. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

We walked to the window; the rain was descending in torrents—pour, pour; pattens clattered in the areas, and a solitary postman made the street echo with his impatient knocks. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851

Ambulant Treatment.—When the patient is able to use crutches, the affected limb is prevented from touching the ground by fixing a patten on the sole of the boot on the sound side. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

This morrow, as I came down the stairs, what should I see but Aunt Joyce, a-shaking the snow from her cloak and pulling off her pattens. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall

She heard the clatter of pattens in the room below; it was Nancy churning in the dairy. The Manxman A Novel - 1895

She wears high-heeled pattens, one of which is black and strewn with silver stars and a crescent, whilst the other is white and is covered with drops of gold, with a sun in their midst. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul

“You don’t want them, and you’ll only go ‘brog—brog’ all down the walks, making the place full of holes, and worse than when people has been down ’em in pattens. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home

Woman rivals woman, and hence loss of reputation and position in high, and loss of hair, and fighting with pattens in low life. Japhet in Search of a Father

He is described as “a young gentleman apparently enamoured of one of the young ladies in scarfs and pattens.” Pickwickian Studies

She immediately took off her pattens, which had iron rings to them, and were not adapted for rapid movement, and placed them quickly and quite unconsciously in the vicar’s arms as he stood beside her. Our Frank and other stories

They wore to protect these frail shoes, when walking on the ill-paved streets, various forms of overshoes, known as goloe-shoes, clogs, pattens, etc. Home Life in Colonial Days

Then, the Overseer provided the needed article.—Had widow Jones broken her spinning wheel or her patten ring? Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King

“Why, you ignorant young cub,” cried the squire, “do you suppose you are always to be running over the ice in pattens, and fishing and shooting?” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp

“Your servant, Madam,” returned Mrs Jane, who had divested herself of cloak and pattens in the hall. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)

Jack Gunn’s donkey looked over the hedge, his furry ears showing a pointed interest in the affair, and in the distance the vicar surveyed the scene from the cottage door, still holding Mrs Darvell’s pattens. Our Frank and other stories

The patten now supports each frugal dame, Which from the blue-eyed Patty takes its name. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

Inside the porch was a recess where the women left their pattens in winter, instead of clattering iron-shod down the aisle. Round About a Great Estate

Mrs. Trapp recovered her balance, slipped off her pattens, and stamped them on the back of his scarlet coat—two oval O's for him to walk about with. The Adventures of Harry Revel

I read a story about mill-girls once; how they wore pattens on their feet and shawls on their heads, and talked so broadly that you couldn't understand them, and threw mud at strangers. Sarah's School Friend

They had on immense quilted mob-caps, with large outstanding ears, petticoats of thick blue or purple woollen, the work of their own hands, heavy stockings to match, and pattens lined with flannel. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76

A tall, gaunt young woman, addicted to pattens; slender and shrewish, of a sharp and acid visage. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

But the magic of that one word patten wrought an instant revolution. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

"Poor Mrs. Shindy and the children are, meanwhile, in dingy lodgings somewhere, waited upon by a charity girl in pattens." Thackeray

The other peculiarity was that, when the roads were dirty, the sisters took long walks in pattens. Memoir of Jane Austen

Go into any church in England, or out of England, and you hear men preaching 'in pattens,' walking gingerly, lest a speck of natural moisture touch a stocking; seeking what's 'sound,' not what's 'true.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the ridinghood's disguise; Or, underneath th' umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread. Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850

Woman rivals woman, and hence loss of reputation and position in high, and loss of hair, and fighting with pattens in low, life. Japhet, in Search of a Father

She wouldn't progress a hundred yards in her unsteady pattens and fragile clothes. The Three Black Pennys A Novel

The patten now supports each frugal dame, Which from the blue-eyed Patty takes the name. Memoir of Jane Austen

Donning her stout shoes and pattens, and slipping a shawl over her head, she reached down the lantern from its peg, lit it, and went out to fill the kettle at the spring. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales

A late passer-by went slowly up the street, and Leh Shin's heart beat a loud obbligato to the sound of his wooden pattens. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery

Light a lantern, and arm yourself with a stout cudgel, while I am putting on my pattens. The Nameless Castle

Ludowika could continue to dress in rare fabrics, to step in elaborate pattens over the common earth. The Three Black Pennys A Novel

The appearance of a servant in the hall with her arms full of yashmaks and ferrajas and several pairs of pattens apprised me that I was too late to see their street-dresses. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

He let you drag through the mud and snow without so much as a patten to keep you off the ground. Clementina

The wood is used for making clogs, pattens, and other such purposes; and the bark for dyeing and manufacturing some of the finer kinds of leather. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II

When the mud's up to your neck, you needn't trouble yourself because you've lost your pattens. Fated to Be Free

She was swathed in a ruffled lilac cloak quilted with a dull gold embroidery; satin slippers were buckled into high pattens of black polished wood; and her head, relatively small with tight-drawn hair, was uncovered. The Three Black Pennys A Novel

The starting effort on such heavily laden sledges is very heavy, but I thought the grip of the pattens and studs would have been good enough on any surface. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I

"In pattens I am, sir," she said quickly. Ten Girls from Dickens

When she was disabused of this idea, her whole being resolved itself into an absorbing anxiety about her pattens, with which she played innumerable games at quoits on Mr Pecksniff's legs. Martin Chuzzlewit

This Miggs was a tall young lady, very much addicted to pattens in private life; slender and shrewish, of a rather uncomfortable figure, and though not absolutely ill-looking, of a sharp and acid visage. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty

He had a recurrence of his sense of her incongruity here, balanced on polished black pattens, against the darkening hills. The Three Black Pennys A Novel

They had serviceable bonnets, good warm cloaks, and shawls; and were not above clogs and pattens. American Notes

“Why then divil be in my patten if I would not go back to Donnybrook and Dublin, hoist the Orange cockade, and become as good an Orange boy as ever.” Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery

Her nap was also broken at intervals like the fabled slumbers of Friar Bacon, by the dropping of the other patten, and of the umbrella. Martin Chuzzlewit

In the street, umbrellas were the only things to be seen, and the clicking of pattens and splashing of rain-drops were the only sounds to be heard. The Pickwick Papers

Click, click, click went the pattens; and she did not turn her head. The Woodlanders

It lay in the wooden patten, looking up at her with its two bright eyes, and chirping contentedly as she stroked its soft feathers. Good Stories for Holidays

He heard her wooden pattens click down an interminable corridor, and after some delay she returned and told him to follow her. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1

Closing her eyes as she made this remark, in the acuteness of her commiseration for Betsey's patients, she forgot to open them again until she dropped a patten. Martin Chuzzlewit

An extra-sized umbrella was then handed in by Mr. Dodson, and a pair of pattens by Mr. Fogg, each of whom had prepared a most sympathising and melancholy face for the occasion. The Pickwick Papers

But twelve miles in pattens—'twill twist your feet off. The Woodlanders

On Christmas Eve she put her little wooden patten on the hearth before the fire, and went to sleep to dream of Saint Nicholas. Good Stories for Holidays

"True — the man must live!" said a woman in the back quarter, who had just entered with clicking pattens. Far from the Madding Crowd

She went to the boot-room where her pattens had hung ever since her apotheosis; took them down, had their mildewed leathers blacked, and put them on as she had done in old times. The Mayor of Casterbridge

"True—the man must live!" said a woman in the back quarter, who had just entered with clicking pattens. Far from the Madding Crowd

"That's the right of another woman," she said, with playful malice, as she put on her pattens. The Woodlanders

He has wooden pattens on and leathern breeches and also carries a lighted lantern. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II

At length I heard Nannie's pattens clatter out of the kitchen to a small outhouse where she pared the potatoes. Wilfrid Cumbermede

"If more girls talked and thought that way, us women'd have fairer shakes," Miss Lavender remarked, as she put on her cloak and pattens. The Story of Kennett

In wet weather clogs and pattens formed an extra and much needed protection when the fair colonists walked. Sabbath in Puritan New England

She hesitated, removed her pattens, knocked the gravel out of them against the wheel, and mounted in front of the nodding specimen apple-tree. The Woodlanders

She has put her wooden pattens aside and walks about in her thick, blue stockings. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II

Tokio also wears boots, but Kyoto is noisy with pattens night and day. Roving East and Roving West

It was in the autumn, and Oline wore shoes every day, instead of going in wooden pattens or rough hide. Growth of the Soil

The pattens are put upon our feet, and the brown arm steadies us gently through the sweating-room and ante-chamber into the outer hall, where we mount to our couch. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain

And all the goblets were of silver and all the pattens were of gold, and the table was spread with a napkin embroidered with threads of gold. The Story of the Champions of the Round Table

A heel-piece with buckles and straps, strings or buttons and leather loops, and a strap over the toe, retain the patten in place upon the foot when the wearer trips along. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

The Lancashire lass with head shawl and pattens, the wearer of the universal sailor hat, in these days of independence and pounds, shillings and pence, are taking note of the shop windows. Mobilizing Woman-Power

As for that, I'll wear out my pattens in time, no doubt. Growth of the Soil

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise Defended by the riding-hood's disguise: Or underneath the umbrella's oily shed Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread. Umbrellas and Their History

He was an ingenious workman, and made excellent pattens; nay, the very patten with which he was knocked down was his own workmanship. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Clogs, as worn by English and American folk, did not raise the wearer as high above the mud and mire as did pattens, but I have seen Turkish clogs that were ten inches high. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

Some moments after, Rigolette, having put on her pattens, left the prison with a lighter heart than when she entered it. Mysteries of Paris, V3

Then Grandmamma Kedge tells me how she used to run about in pattens, and feed the chickens, and scrub the floor, and I do so wish I was her. The Pillars of the House, V1

So one of the ladies-in-waiting was obliged to go down, but she put on pattens first. The Art of the Story-Teller

She sat a little time pondering; then, getting her cloak, calash, and pattens, she set forth, the look of thought displaced by one of determination. Janice Meredith

These pattens in the old trunk are prettier than most pattens which have been preserved. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

Then a vast crowd of worshipers surrounded me, a priest before the altar raised the pyx and the patten in his hands. Dreams and Dream Stories

In the Corinthian porch occurred a great putting-on of cloaks, ulsters, goloshes, and even pattens, and a great putting-up of umbrellas. The Old Wives' Tale

You make no more haste now, than a beggar upon pattens; or a physician to a patient that has no money, you pilchers. The Poetaster

Gloucester Lodge could be surrounded, and George and Charlotte carried off before he could put on his hat, or she her red cloak and pattens! The Dynasts

A friend in Northamptonshire, England, writes me that pattens are still seen on muddy days in remote English villages in that shire. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

The little carriages that have brought us to the necropolis of Memphis, through the interminable forest of palm-trees, had their wheels fitted with large pattens for their journey over the sand. Egypt (La Mort de Philae)

But the true patrin is handfuls of leaves flung down; for patrin or patten in old Roman language means the leaf of a tree. Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language

Poor Mrs. Shindy and the children are, meanwhile, in dingy lodgings somewhere, waited upon by a charity-girl in pattens. The Book of Snobs

Waggons creak, horses splash, carts rattle, and pattens paddle through the dirt with more than their usual clink. Our Village

The pocket has served during recent years as a cover for two articles of footwear which many "of the younger sort" to-day have never seen--they are pattens. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

In another moment Mistress Thankful had donned her cloak and pattens to view this firstling of the laggard summer. Thankful Blossom

He heard steps ahead, the boots of the doomed magistrate and the slipshod pattens of the woman. The Path of the King

I have heard that Miss Branwell always went about the house in pattens, clicking up and down the stairs, from her dread of catching cold. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1

The person I had seen in pattens, who I suppose to have been the cook, frequently came and skirmished with her at the door, and there appeared to be ill will between them. Bleak House

"Clumsy, ugly pattens" we find them frequently stigmatized in the severe words of the early years of the nineteenth century, but there is nothing ugly or clumsy about this pair. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

Poplar wood was deemed the best wood for pattens and clogs. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

It is a curious philological study that, while the words "clogs" and "pattens" for a time were constantly heard, the third name which has survived till to-day is the oldest of all--"galoshes." Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

On our way happened of Uncle Head, to whom I complained bitterly of the dirty streets, declaring if I could purchase a pair of pattens, the singularity I would not mind. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

"In pattens I am, sir," she said quickly. Bleak House

There is a most ungallant old riddle, "Why is a wife like a patten?" Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

Gay wrote in his Trivia, 1715:-- "The patten now supports each frugal dame That from the blue-eyed Patty takes the name." Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

In reality, patten is derived from the French word patin, which has a varied meaning of the sole of a shoe or a skate. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

There were also horse pattens or horse clogs which horses wore through deep, muddy roads; I have an interesting photograph of a pair found in Northampton. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

单词	patten
例句	patten The Bolt App Lock lets you add additional security measures like PIN codes, fingerprint recognition, or pattens, to apps you don’t want others to easily access. Facebook’s data-collecting VPN company has found a way to collect even more data 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z This poor man has distorted hands instead of feet, and he moves about on pattens or wooden clogs strapped to his hands and legs. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z She watched the woman of the cottage pass in and out with pail and pattens, and by-and-by she had to parry her questions. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z "Here's a mess!" she said, throwing down the pattens and looking about her with disgust. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Only yesterday a lady was telling me how her mother was near losing her life in the mud of the chief street, leaving behind her the English pattens of which she was so proud. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z It is a wooden over-shoe with raised sole and high wooden heel instead of the iron ring under English pattens. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z For a century and a half unconscious hobnails and pattens have ground the nameless stones above him, while mediocrities in marble230 have thronged our public haunts. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z In wet weather he carried a large umbrella and walked on pattens. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Anyways, there are some pattens, so that you can get about--there's as good as you have gone on pattens before now! Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z There was a clattering of pattens in the stony lanes as children hurried to the Baptism. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z The women in that region wear a kind of patten in winter to keep them above the snow. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z “Why then Divil be in my patten if I would not go back to Donnybrook and Dublin, hoist the Orange cockade, and become as good an Orange boy as ever.” Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Presently returning, less the pattens: and a good deal less, for they were tall and Mrs. Peerybingle was but short: she set the Kettle on the fire. The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home 2011-10-02T02:00:12.587Z And she clattered abruptly away, and Henrietta was left to patten her road to the pump and back, and afterwards to finish her toilette in what shivering comfort she might. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z You'll be draggled up to your chin, if you walk; put in case you haven't got your umbrella, and your pattens. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z But her quick peal of laughter was checked when I sprang up to chasten her, and she fled on her pattens, but I caught her around the corner of the house under the lilacs. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z “In pattens I am, sir,” she said, quickly. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z She looks taller than ever, but wears pattens to keep her feet from the wet flags. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z With a jerk she disengaged her shoes from the pattens, dropped the broom, and made for the door of her room, with such dignity as her kilted skirt left her. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Everything in this kitchen was absolutely bright and spotless, as clean as a cat in pattens, except the ceiling, darkened by fumes of gas. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z In pattens she tripped about the slushy yard, her thick, bright hair pegged loosely, and her child's bosom and arms as white as the snow she stepped on. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z A similar contrivance, with the addition of an iron ring, leather strap and toe-cap, is still sometimes worn by farm servants, and is called a patten. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z She carried in a tray of refreshment—bread, butter, cheese, milk, and honey, and had adjusted the sleeves of her gown, straightened her hair, put on a clean apron, and taken off her pattens. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z She struck on the half-open door, and a pair of pattens clanked across the kitchen flags. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z "We are seeing impressive pattens," and positive comments from companies including Cisco Systems Inc, Lieberman said. 2010-02-05T23:39:00Z I was however guided by the latter, and wore no pattens. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. And then suddenly she jumped up, and tore out of the room as fast as her clattering pattens would permit. The Undying Past Wooden clogs and pattens are as bad as the thick shoes of the country people. Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress From the kitchen, where the jacks were turning, firelight streamed across the yard, and pattens clicked, and dogs occasionally yelped; and now and again Mrs. Gilson's voice clacked strenuously. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z What takes my fancy is the girls clinkin' to and from the scullery in those pattens they wear. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune We now chose the ordinary route, breasting the slope until we reached the cluster of chalets, under the projecting eave of one of which the men halted and applied "pattens" to their feet. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Saturday.—Grandfather took us down street to be measured for some new patten leather shoes at Mr. Ambler’s. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl The child turned sorrowfully away, and the click of her pattens was heard on the stone pavement getting fainter and fainter in the distance. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days Then with a final look round she went out, her pattens clinked across the court, and Henrietta heard the key turned in the outer door. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z So good was the effect that, on the doctor's departure, she threw his pills out of the window, and putting on pattens, took her cane and went away through the slush to see Margaret. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington I stated this emphatically, but the men adhered to their pattens, and before I reached the Montanvert I had reason to commend their practice as preferable to my theory. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. My feet are all right any way with my new patten leather shoes on but I shall have to look out for my head. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl Goloshes had not then come into use, and women wore in muddy weather pattens or clogs. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself At length she was about to venture out at no matter what cost, when the door of the yard opened, and the jailor's wife came stumbling through the snow on a pair of pattens. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The long paws were shod with a species of pattens, so big they seemed like miniature tables, and these pattens were painted scarlet. The City Curious When she returns at night, she appears, if the weather happens to be doubtful, in a calash; and her servant in pattens, follows half behind and half at her side, with a lantern. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time This morning we had on our new white dresses that Miss Rosewarne made and new summer hats and new patten leather shoes and our mitts. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl Came the priest of the pattens, and the clerk of the bells. The Irish Fairy Book Then she wheeled about so sharply that, unused to pattens, she stumbled and all but fell. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Smaly began to understand why it was that the Confectioner walked about on high pattens, and why the Rats wore boots. The City Curious Now and again ladies pass in their pattens, a maid perhaps protecting them with an umbrella, for flakes of snow are falling discreetly. Quality Street A Comedy But Kings and mighty Princes of the world, By letter pattens rob both Sea and Land. The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge It was oil skin and rubber for the men; it was cloaks and pattens and umbrellas for the women. An Orkney Maid For a long minute the distant clatter of Modest Ann's tongue, and the clink of pattens in the yard, were the only sounds that broke the lemon-laden silence of the room. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Occasionally a dripping umbrella hurried past, showing nothing but thin legs in tights and top-boots, or thick ones in worsteds and pattens. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 I suddenly felt it while putting on my pattens. Quality Street A Comedy My feet are all right anyway with my new patten leather shoes on, but I shall have to look out for my head. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Very handsome gilt combs held up her rippled hair, and a large red-riding-hood cloak covered her from the crowning bow of her hair to the little French pattens that protected her black 82 satin slippers. An Orkney Maid The rest walked upon clattering pattens, like a French heel set by the cobbler’s mistake at the instep. The Readjustment Note extension strapping applied to affected leg, and patten under sound foot. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. With your permission, Miss Susan, I shall put on my pattens. Quality Street A Comedy An old woman comes tottering by on high pattens, very comfortably and nicely clad. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot The mode by which these pattens served to sustain the horse is capable of easy explanation, and it will be observed that the rationale likewise explains the floating of a railway train. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson When in my gilded coach I ride, My Lady, at his Lordship's side, How will I laugh at all I meet Clattering in pattens down the street! The Children's Garland from the Best Poets When the affection is unilateral, advantage may be derived from a Thomas' or other form of splint, along with a patten and crutches; in bilateral cases, from the use of crutches alone. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. One of the ladies had to go and ask; but she put on pattens. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen A pair of brass-bound pattens hinged in the middle, once worn instead of overshoes by some colonial ancestress, sat alongside a pair of oriental sandals. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York These pattens were fitted on by means of a screw apparatus, which met in front of the foot and was easily fastened. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson We walked to the window; the rain was descending in torrents—pour, pour; pattens clattered in the areas, and a solitary postman made the street echo with his impatient knocks. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Ambulant Treatment.—When the patient is able to use crutches, the affected limb is prevented from touching the ground by fixing a patten on the sole of the boot on the sound side. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. This morrow, as I came down the stairs, what should I see but Aunt Joyce, a-shaking the snow from her cloak and pulling off her pattens. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall She heard the clatter of pattens in the room below; it was Nancy churning in the dairy. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 She wears high-heeled pattens, one of which is black and strewn with silver stars and a crescent, whilst the other is white and is covered with drops of gold, with a sun in their midst. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul “You don’t want them, and you’ll only go ‘brog—brog’ all down the walks, making the place full of holes, and worse than when people has been down ’em in pattens. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home Woman rivals woman, and hence loss of reputation and position in high, and loss of hair, and fighting with pattens in low life. Japhet in Search of a Father He is described as “a young gentleman apparently enamoured of one of the young ladies in scarfs and pattens.” Pickwickian Studies She immediately took off her pattens, which had iron rings to them, and were not adapted for rapid movement, and placed them quickly and quite unconsciously in the vicar’s arms as he stood beside her. Our Frank and other stories They wore to protect these frail shoes, when walking on the ill-paved streets, various forms of overshoes, known as goloe-shoes, clogs, pattens, etc. Home Life in Colonial Days Then, the Overseer provided the needed article.—Had widow Jones broken her spinning wheel or her patten ring? Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King “Why, you ignorant young cub,” cried the squire, “do you suppose you are always to be running over the ice in pattens, and fishing and shooting?” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp “Your servant, Madam,” returned Mrs Jane, who had divested herself of cloak and pattens in the hall. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Jack Gunn’s donkey looked over the hedge, his furry ears showing a pointed interest in the affair, and in the distance the vicar surveyed the scene from the cottage door, still holding Mrs Darvell’s pattens. Our Frank and other stories The patten now supports each frugal dame, Which from the blue-eyed Patty takes its name. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Inside the porch was a recess where the women left their pattens in winter, instead of clattering iron-shod down the aisle. Round About a Great Estate Mrs. Trapp recovered her balance, slipped off her pattens, and stamped them on the back of his scarlet coat—two oval O's for him to walk about with. The Adventures of Harry Revel I read a story about mill-girls once; how they wore pattens on their feet and shawls on their heads, and talked so broadly that you couldn't understand them, and threw mud at strangers. Sarah's School Friend They had on immense quilted mob-caps, with large outstanding ears, petticoats of thick blue or purple woollen, the work of their own hands, heavy stockings to match, and pattens lined with flannel. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 A tall, gaunt young woman, addicted to pattens; slender and shrewish, of a sharp and acid visage. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 But the magic of that one word patten wrought an instant revolution. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg "Poor Mrs. Shindy and the children are, meanwhile, in dingy lodgings somewhere, waited upon by a charity girl in pattens." Thackeray The other peculiarity was that, when the roads were dirty, the sisters took long walks in pattens. Memoir of Jane Austen Go into any church in England, or out of England, and you hear men preaching 'in pattens,' walking gingerly, lest a speck of natural moisture touch a stocking; seeking what's 'sound,' not what's 'true.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the ridinghood's disguise; Or, underneath th' umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread. Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 Woman rivals woman, and hence loss of reputation and position in high, and loss of hair, and fighting with pattens in low, life. Japhet, in Search of a Father She wouldn't progress a hundred yards in her unsteady pattens and fragile clothes. The Three Black Pennys A Novel The patten now supports each frugal dame, Which from the blue-eyed Patty takes the name. Memoir of Jane Austen Donning her stout shoes and pattens, and slipping a shawl over her head, she reached down the lantern from its peg, lit it, and went out to fill the kettle at the spring. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales A late passer-by went slowly up the street, and Leh Shin's heart beat a loud obbligato to the sound of his wooden pattens. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Light a lantern, and arm yourself with a stout cudgel, while I am putting on my pattens. The Nameless Castle Ludowika could continue to dress in rare fabrics, to step in elaborate pattens over the common earth. The Three Black Pennys A Novel The appearance of a servant in the hall with her arms full of yashmaks and ferrajas and several pairs of pattens apprised me that I was too late to see their street-dresses. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 He let you drag through the mud and snow without so much as a patten to keep you off the ground. Clementina The wood is used for making clogs, pattens, and other such purposes; and the bark for dyeing and manufacturing some of the finer kinds of leather. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II When the mud's up to your neck, you needn't trouble yourself because you've lost your pattens. Fated to Be Free She was swathed in a ruffled lilac cloak quilted with a dull gold embroidery; satin slippers were buckled into high pattens of black polished wood; and her head, relatively small with tight-drawn hair, was uncovered. The Three Black Pennys A Novel The starting effort on such heavily laden sledges is very heavy, but I thought the grip of the pattens and studs would have been good enough on any surface. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I "In pattens I am, sir," she said quickly. Ten Girls from Dickens When she was disabused of this idea, her whole being resolved itself into an absorbing anxiety about her pattens, with which she played innumerable games at quoits on Mr Pecksniff's legs. Martin Chuzzlewit This Miggs was a tall young lady, very much addicted to pattens in private life; slender and shrewish, of a rather uncomfortable figure, and though not absolutely ill-looking, of a sharp and acid visage. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty He had a recurrence of his sense of her incongruity here, balanced on polished black pattens, against the darkening hills. The Three Black Pennys A Novel They had serviceable bonnets, good warm cloaks, and shawls; and were not above clogs and pattens. American Notes “Why then divil be in my patten if I would not go back to Donnybrook and Dublin, hoist the Orange cockade, and become as good an Orange boy as ever.” Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery Her nap was also broken at intervals like the fabled slumbers of Friar Bacon, by the dropping of the other patten, and of the umbrella. Martin Chuzzlewit In the street, umbrellas were the only things to be seen, and the clicking of pattens and splashing of rain-drops were the only sounds to be heard. The Pickwick Papers Click, click, click went the pattens; and she did not turn her head. The Woodlanders It lay in the wooden patten, looking up at her with its two bright eyes, and chirping contentedly as she stroked its soft feathers. Good Stories for Holidays He heard her wooden pattens click down an interminable corridor, and after some delay she returned and told him to follow her. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 Closing her eyes as she made this remark, in the acuteness of her commiseration for Betsey's patients, she forgot to open them again until she dropped a patten. Martin Chuzzlewit An extra-sized umbrella was then handed in by Mr. Dodson, and a pair of pattens by Mr. Fogg, each of whom had prepared a most sympathising and melancholy face for the occasion. The Pickwick Papers But twelve miles in pattens—'twill twist your feet off. The Woodlanders On Christmas Eve she put her little wooden patten on the hearth before the fire, and went to sleep to dream of Saint Nicholas. Good Stories for Holidays "True — the man must live!" said a woman in the back quarter, who had just entered with clicking pattens. Far from the Madding Crowd She went to the boot-room where her pattens had hung ever since her apotheosis; took them down, had their mildewed leathers blacked, and put them on as she had done in old times. The Mayor of Casterbridge "True—the man must live!" said a woman in the back quarter, who had just entered with clicking pattens. Far from the Madding Crowd "That's the right of another woman," she said, with playful malice, as she put on her pattens. The Woodlanders He has wooden pattens on and leathern breeches and also carries a lighted lantern. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II At length I heard Nannie's pattens clatter out of the kitchen to a small outhouse where she pared the potatoes. Wilfrid Cumbermede "If more girls talked and thought that way, us women'd have fairer shakes," Miss Lavender remarked, as she put on her cloak and pattens. The Story of Kennett In wet weather clogs and pattens formed an extra and much needed protection when the fair colonists walked. Sabbath in Puritan New England She hesitated, removed her pattens, knocked the gravel out of them against the wheel, and mounted in front of the nodding specimen apple-tree. The Woodlanders She has put her wooden pattens aside and walks about in her thick, blue stockings. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Tokio also wears boots, but Kyoto is noisy with pattens night and day. Roving East and Roving West It was in the autumn, and Oline wore shoes every day, instead of going in wooden pattens or rough hide. Growth of the Soil The pattens are put upon our feet, and the brown arm steadies us gently through the sweating-room and ante-chamber into the outer hall, where we mount to our couch. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain And all the goblets were of silver and all the pattens were of gold, and the table was spread with a napkin embroidered with threads of gold. The Story of the Champions of the Round Table A heel-piece with buckles and straps, strings or buttons and leather loops, and a strap over the toe, retain the patten in place upon the foot when the wearer trips along. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) The Lancashire lass with head shawl and pattens, the wearer of the universal sailor hat, in these days of independence and pounds, shillings and pence, are taking note of the shop windows. Mobilizing Woman-Power As for that, I'll wear out my pattens in time, no doubt. Growth of the Soil Good housewives all the winter's rage despise Defended by the riding-hood's disguise: Or underneath the umbrella's oily shed Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread. Umbrellas and Their History He was an ingenious workman, and made excellent pattens; nay, the very patten with which he was knocked down was his own workmanship. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Clogs, as worn by English and American folk, did not raise the wearer as high above the mud and mire as did pattens, but I have seen Turkish clogs that were ten inches high. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Some moments after, Rigolette, having put on her pattens, left the prison with a lighter heart than when she entered it. Mysteries of Paris, V3 Then Grandmamma Kedge tells me how she used to run about in pattens, and feed the chickens, and scrub the floor, and I do so wish I was her. The Pillars of the House, V1 So one of the ladies-in-waiting was obliged to go down, but she put on pattens first. The Art of the Story-Teller She sat a little time pondering; then, getting her cloak, calash, and pattens, she set forth, the look of thought displaced by one of determination. Janice Meredith These pattens in the old trunk are prettier than most pattens which have been preserved. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Then a vast crowd of worshipers surrounded me, a priest before the altar raised the pyx and the patten in his hands. Dreams and Dream Stories In the Corinthian porch occurred a great putting-on of cloaks, ulsters, goloshes, and even pattens, and a great putting-up of umbrellas. The Old Wives' Tale You make no more haste now, than a beggar upon pattens; or a physician to a patient that has no money, you pilchers. The Poetaster Gloucester Lodge could be surrounded, and George and Charlotte carried off before he could put on his hat, or she her red cloak and pattens! The Dynasts A friend in Northamptonshire, England, writes me that pattens are still seen on muddy days in remote English villages in that shire. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) The little carriages that have brought us to the necropolis of Memphis, through the interminable forest of palm-trees, had their wheels fitted with large pattens for their journey over the sand. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) But the true patrin is handfuls of leaves flung down; for patrin or patten in old Roman language means the leaf of a tree. Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language Poor Mrs. Shindy and the children are, meanwhile, in dingy lodgings somewhere, waited upon by a charity-girl in pattens. The Book of Snobs Waggons creak, horses splash, carts rattle, and pattens paddle through the dirt with more than their usual clink. Our Village The pocket has served during recent years as a cover for two articles of footwear which many "of the younger sort" to-day have never seen--they are pattens. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) In another moment Mistress Thankful had donned her cloak and pattens to view this firstling of the laggard summer. Thankful Blossom He heard steps ahead, the boots of the doomed magistrate and the slipshod pattens of the woman. The Path of the King I have heard that Miss Branwell always went about the house in pattens, clicking up and down the stairs, from her dread of catching cold. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 The person I had seen in pattens, who I suppose to have been the cook, frequently came and skirmished with her at the door, and there appeared to be ill will between them. Bleak House "Clumsy, ugly pattens" we find them frequently stigmatized in the severe words of the early years of the nineteenth century, but there is nothing ugly or clumsy about this pair. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Poplar wood was deemed the best wood for pattens and clogs. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) It is a curious philological study that, while the words "clogs" and "pattens" for a time were constantly heard, the third name which has survived till to-day is the oldest of all--"galoshes." Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) On our way happened of Uncle Head, to whom I complained bitterly of the dirty streets, declaring if I could purchase a pair of pattens, the singularity I would not mind. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) "In pattens I am, sir," she said quickly. Bleak House There is a most ungallant old riddle, "Why is a wife like a patten?" Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Gay wrote in his Trivia, 1715:-- "The patten now supports each frugal dame That from the blue-eyed Patty takes the name." Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) In reality, patten is derived from the French word patin, which has a varied meaning of the sole of a shoe or a skate. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) There were also horse pattens or horse clogs which horses wore through deep, muddy roads; I have an interesting photograph of a pair found in Northampton. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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