patterns

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But the jovial column conductor who had once printed some of Marry's verse, swept him into a strange circle of struggling young writers, successful newspaper patterers, sophisticated critics.

From Time Magazine Archive

The men patterers are a much larger class in New York than the women.

From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney

Preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language; with glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers, and the patterers.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

At Castle Garden the patterers meet with a constant stream of freshly arrived emigrants.

From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney

City Hall Park, Printing-House Square, Bowery, and Nassau street, are the great centres for all kinds of patterers.

From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney