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verb

Pattern v. t. (past & past part. patterned; pres. part. patterning)

To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. "(A temple) patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise."

To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.

To pattern after, to imitate; to follow.

adjective

patterned adj. Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors. (Narrower terms: banded, blotched, blotchy, splotched, brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby, burled, checked, checkered, dappled, mottled, dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled, figured, floral, flowered, laced, marbled, marbleized, moire, watered, pinstriped, pinstripe(prenominal), slashed, streaked, spotted, sprigged, streaked, streaky, striped, stripy, tessellated, veined, venose). Antonyms: plain, solid.

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Etymology of 'Patterned'

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"Patterned" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a very corpulent old man, with a large, square-patterned ulster, and a deer-stalker hat, tied on with a red silk handkerchief under his chin in a large bow, matching his complexion. His companion was thin and sallow, and wore a very desponding air, despite a prolific red beard, which, when ...

— A Girl's Ride in Iceland • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

... garden paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled fan, I too am a rare Pattern. As I wander ...

— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse

... twenty-eight, prim and decorous, Patterned after her mother; black street costume, with furs.] No news from the steamer, it seems! ...

— The Naturewoman • Upton Sinclair

... like old church candlesticks, seemed to invite Chichikov to enter. True, the establishment was only a Russian hut of the ordinary type, but it was a hut of larger dimensions than usual, and had around its windows and gables carved and patterned cornices of bright-coloured wood which threw into relief the darker hue of the walls, and consorted well with the flowered ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... northern defences was the work of a few minutes. Even the elderly breed cook at the cook-house was claimed, though his only weapons were an ancient patterned revolver and a pick-haft he had snatched up. Fifteen men in all he was able to collect and at the head of them he rushed for ...

— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum

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