Brewer's: Patois

(2 syl.). Dialectic peculiarity, provincialism. Asinius Pollio noticed something of the kind in Livy, which he called patavinitas, from Patavium, Livy's birth-town.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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