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Head of a manor in early New York or New Jersey
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patroon
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) One of the landowning Dutch grandees of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, especially after it became a British possession, renamed as New York.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patroon \Pa*troon"\, n. [D. patroon a patron, a protector. See Patron .] One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, variant of patron used in foreign contexts, from Dutch patroon (a French loan-word) or French patron "master, patron," from Old French (see patron ; also see -oon ); used from 1758 in parts of New York and New Jersey colonies for "landholder," especially ...
Usage examples of patroon.
The great patroon families, with their vast estates, their patents, their feudal systems, have stood supreme here for years.
Dutch of descent, polished, courtly, proud, bearing the title of patroon as a noble bears his coronet.
I thrashed that puling young patroon, too, for he saw me and refused my salute.
Mars or the old patroon who stays at home and dips his nose into nothing worse than old Madeira!
I see the joke yet in spelling patroon with an o for the a and an ell for good measure!
And they made a sparkling bevy as they fluttered up the staircase to their cloak-room, while Sir John entered the drawing-room, followed by the other gentlemen, and stood in careless conversation with the patroon, while old Cato disembarrassed him of cloak and hat.
When the patroon named me to him he turned his lack-lustre eyes on me and offered me a large, damp hand.
The plea of the patroon for neutrality in the war now sweeping towards the Mohawk Valley I had heard before.
Presently the patroon raised his eyes and looked at Colonel John Butler.
Third, those of Dutch blood, descended from brave ancestors, like our worthy patroon here.
So I closed the door of the gun-room on the great patroon and walked to the foot of the stairway.
Sir George sauntered forth from the doorway where he had been standing, and begged us to dismount, but the patroon declined, saying that we had far to ride ere sundown, and that one of us should go around by Broadalbin.
The two were meeting for lunch, as they did every month or so, at Patroon, an upscale, beef-and-claret restaurant on East Forty-seventh Street.
Mynheer, Michael Paw, who lorded it over the fair regions of ancient Pavonia, and the lands away south even unto the Navesink Mountains, and was, moreover, patroon of Gibbet Island.
The combatants paused for a moment, gazing in mute astonishment, until the wind, dispelling the murky cloud, revealed the flaunting banner of Michael Paw, the Patroon of Communipaw.