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Significados de patois en inglés

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A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

      patois

      Language spoken in France, near the Italian and Swiss borders. Also spoken in Italy and Switzerland.

            Uso de patois en inglés
            1
            Havenite patois will work fine, since they won't know the difference anyway.
            Crown of Slaves
            2
            I'm not even quite sure what patois is-somesort of meat paste?
            Hull zero three
            3
            Where fashion patois shines, however, is in the flamboyant expression of sensibility.
            BBC
            4
            The letter is ill-written and worse spelt, in an extraordinary French patois.
            The Winning of the West, Volume 2 / From the Alleghanies to the ...
            5
            Their language was a Spanish patois; their voices were sharp and disagreeable.
            The Scalp Hunters
            6
            The Kid was conversant with their French patois, and followed it anxiously.
            The Son of the Wolf
            7
            He knew much of the patois, from hearing it spoken at home.
            Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
            8
            The dialect of Chamouni is a patois, composed of French and Latin.
            Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
            9
            Brian Moore came with us, too, 'cause he speaks the local patois.
            Secret Sanction
            10
            When they talked their own patois you could see he didn't understand.
            The Son of the Wolf
            11
            Yet they understood each other, using a quasi-human language as a common patois.
            The Long War
            12
            The English pronunciation of the name William had been preserved in the patois.
            Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
            13
            In Jamaica we speak patois so people here couldn't understand me.
            The Guardian
            14
            The woman began to talk swiftly in a patois of French and Cree.
            The Flaming Forest
            15
            It easily understands basic Jamaican patois and can even recognise the Jamaican accent.
            Jamaica Observer
            16
            He had picked up some of the patois of half-blood French and English.
            The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild
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