patroon

American  

[puh-troon] / pəˈtrun /

noun

1. a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

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patroon British  

/ pəˈtruːn /

noun

1. (in the US) a Dutch land-holder in New Netherland and New York with manorial rights in the colonial era

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Other Word Forms

• patroonship
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of patroon

1655–65; < Dutch < French < Latin patrōnus. See patron, -oon

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Example Sentences

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patroon

The patroon reserved all water and mineral rights.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The barges had frequently forty or fifty men, with a patroon, and carried fifty or sixty tons.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday

The patroon system was from the beginning doomed to failure.

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin

A type of feudalism known as the patroon system was decided upon.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

The patroon had directed that they be furnished with clothing "in such small and compact parcels as can be properly stowed away on the ship."

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin

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