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 Patelin.Patent Rolls. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Patelinage.
 
Foolery, buffoonery; acting like Patelin in the French farce.   1
        “I never in my life laughed so much as at the acting of that Patelinage.”—Rabelais: Pantagruel, iii. 34.
 


 Patelin.Patent Rolls. 

 
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