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noun
a group's jargon; a group's slang; a dialect considered inferior
1898The King's Jackal'It was good to see the clouds following each other across the old mountains and throwing black shadows on the campagna, and to hear the people's patois and to taste Messinian wine again and to know it was from your own hillside.1995Get ShortyMARTIN: Yeah. Kinda. Anyway, once I have the authentic sounds of speech, the rhythms, man, the patois…1999MonsterI used a library pay phone, called, and participated in a confused ninety-second conversation with a man who sounded very old, very gentle, and, from his patois, probably black.2003Blue HorizonXhia switched into the patois of the colony, a mixture of all the languages.Labels: Jonathan Kellerman, Richard Harding Davis, Scott Frank, Wilbur Smith
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