pattern
noun
a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
had been patterning
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past perfect progressiveof pattern.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Quietly he had been patterning himself upon that master artist, Perkins, who for some years had easily held the championship for the district.
From Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail by Ralph Connor
