patroon

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /pəˈtɹuːn/

Noun

patroon (plural patroons)

1. (US) One of the landowning Dutch grandees of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, especially after it became a British possession renamed as New York.

Related terms

• patron

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