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A provincial idiom in speech or writing; so called from Patavium (Padua), the birthplace of Livy. (See Patois.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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