"patteran" meaning in English

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        "3": "pateryánsa"
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  "etymology_text": "From Romani patrin (“leaf”), perhaps specifically from an inflected form like Vlax Romani pateryánsa.",
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    {
      "form": "patterans",
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          "ref": "1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Gipsy Trail, Boston: Alfred Bartlett, published 1909, verse 8",
          "text": "Follow the Romany Patteran / Sheer to the Austral Light, / Where the besom of God is the wild South wind, / Sweeping the sea-floors white.",
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          "ref": "2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road",
          "text": "They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside. They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterans.",
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        "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."
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        {
          "word": "patrin"
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  "etymology_text": "From Romani patrin (“leaf”), perhaps specifically from an inflected form like Vlax Romani pateryánsa.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "patterans",
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          "ref": "1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Gipsy Trail, Boston: Alfred Bartlett, published 1909, verse 8",
          "text": "Follow the Romany Patteran / Sheer to the Austral Light, / Where the besom of God is the wild South wind, / Sweeping the sea-floors white.",
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        },
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