Associations to the word «Patten»

Wiktionary

PATTEN, noun. Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
PATTEN, noun. (UK) (dialect) (obsolete) A stilt.

Dictionary definition

PATTEN, noun. Footwear usually with wooden soles.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope