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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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PAITTERN, also pattren, paitren, paitturn, pettern, n. I. Sc. form of Eng. pattern. See P.L.D. § 48.1. (ne.Sc. 1891 A. Gordon Carglen 165; Abd. 1893 G.
MacDonald Heather & Snow xxxvi., pettern, 1897 Id. Salted with Fire
xix.). [′petərən]m.Sc. 1988 William Neill Making Tracks 23:
The
Doctor's Messan set a Scottish paitren
tae mak oor
hoggs thair Scottish lugmairks tine.
For speakin
Scots wee duddie bairns are skelpit. Dundee 1989 W. N. Herbert in Joy Hendry Chapman 55-6 92:
...
ut widna dae
tae seek ayont thi
things
Eh'd keekit thru, save fur this paitturn's
sake. Lnk. 1991 Duncan Glen Selected Poems 22:
The
millions o millions rejectit yet individual
ayont
the common pettern
e'en if but for a day efter the
creation. wm.Sc. 1991 Liz Lochhead Bagpipe Muzak 38:
Whateverrys.
Big blooming Dallassy shoulder pads, hectic pattren, lurex thread through it, apparently sent away for it
out Myna-Inglis-Next-Door's catalogue, cheap-lukkin wisnae the word for
it.
II. ppl.adj. petterned. Lnk. 1997 Duncan Glen From Upland Man 10:
But
the bothie through the door
ahint the
Chinese-petterned draught-screen
is a place o mony
purposes.
The bothie in name but a
wunnerland
for aw ages.
