A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
Language spoken in France, near the Italian and Swiss borders. Also spoken in Italy and Switzerland.
1 Havenite patois will work fine, since they won't know the difference anyway.
2 I'm not even quite sure what patois is-somesort of meat paste?
3 Where fashion patois shines, however, is in the flamboyant expression of sensibility.
4 The letter is ill-written and worse spelt, in an extraordinary French patois .
5 Their language was a Spanish patois ; their voices were sharp and disagreeable.
6 The Kid was conversant with their French patois , and followed it anxiously.
7 He knew much of the patois , from hearing it spoken at home.
8 The dialect of Chamouni is a patois , composed of French and Latin.
9 Brian Moore came with us, too, 'cause he speaks the local patois .
10 When they talked their own patois you could see he didn't understand.
11 Yet they understood each other, using a quasi-human language as a common patois .
12 The English pronunciation of the name William had been preserved in the patois .
13 In Jamaica we speak patois so people here couldn't understand me.
14 The woman began to talk swiftly in a patois of French and Cree.
15 It easily understands basic Jamaican patois and can even recognise the Jamaican accent.
16 He had picked up some of the patois of half-blood French and English.
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