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Patroon
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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patroon
1662, variant of patron used in foreign contexts, from Du. patroon or Fr. patron "master, patron," from O.Fr. (see patron); used from 1758 in parts of N.Y. and N.J. colonies for "landholder," especially one with certain manorial privileges (abolished c.1850) under the old
EXPANDDutch governments by the charter of 1629.
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