Pattern

Pattern

A pattern, from the French patron, is a type of theme of recurring events or objects, sometimes referred to as elements of a set of objects.

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Famous quotes containing the word pattern:

    “No, I will be the pattern of all patience,
    I will say nothing.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We took advantage of [the Indians’] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “For the man who should loose me is dead,
    Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,
    In a pattern called a war.
    Christ! What are patterns for?”
    —Amy Lowell (1874–1925)