| In wet weather he carried a large umbrella and walked on pattens. |
| The pattens did not need the Declaration of Independence to tell them about the American Cause. |
| Made between 1750 and 1830, pattens were worn over the shoes and served to raise the wearer's foot above the mud and dirt beneath, rather like prototypical galoshes. |
| Colonists like the pattens did not fight against imperial rule because they resented paying taxes. |
| She borrowed a pair of pattens to walk to the waterside, pretending to visit her grandmother. |
| There is the story of three young women slipping into their pattens and going to the well with their pitchers for water. |
