Meaning of patteran | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“Follow the Romany Patteran / Sheer to the Austral Light, / Where the besom of God is the wild South wind, / Sweeping the sea-floors white.”

“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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