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Patton

[ pat-n ]

noun

  1. Charley Charlie Patton, 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
  2. George Smith, 1885–1945, U.S. general.


Patton

/ ˈpætən /

noun

  1. PattonGeorge Smith18851945MUSMILITARY: general George Smith. 1885–1945, US general, who successfully developed tank warfare as an extension of cavalry tactics in World War II: captured Palermo, Sicily (1942) and much of France (1944)


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As anybody who has seen his now famous rant on Parks and Recreation knows, Patton Oswalt can get a little obsessed.

Stacey Patton almost invents a new genre in her book of memoir and history, That Mean Old Yesterday.

Patton is a triumphant representative of resistance in black America.

Black children, Patton argues, are rarely granted the public privileges of childhood.

The worst part, however, is the apparent text messages that poison the screen—seemingly a conversation between Thicke and Patton.

Gibbon's father married his second wife, Miss Dorothea Patton, in 1755.

A filmy and diaphanous creature was Mrs. Patton also—one could never have dreamed of so exquisite a black butterfly.

Mrs. Patton was still in mourning, a filmy and diaphanous kind of mourning, beautiful enough to placate the angel Azrael himself.

And then he could have moved up to town, and got a frock-coat, and paid another call upon Mrs. "Parmy" Patton.

Mrs. Patton, he explained, was socially prominent—was looked upon as the leader of a set that went in for intellectual things.

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