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PATTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 936 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATTER  , properly a

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slang word for the secret or " cant " language used by beggars, thieves, gipsies, &c., hence the fluent plausible talk that a cheap-
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jack employs to pass off his goods, or a conjuror to cover up his tricks . It is thus used of any rapid manner of talking, and of a " patter-
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song," in which a very large number of words have to be sung at high speed to
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fit them to the
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music . The word, though in some of its senses affected by patter," to make a series of rapid strokes or pats, as of rain-drops, is derived from the
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quick,
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mechanical repetition of the Paternoster, or Lord's Prayer .

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