, or padrone.
The master of a merchant vessel or coaster in the Mediterranean. Also, a cartridge-box, temp. Elizabeth.
Pā̆trōn, ōnĭs, m., one of the companions of Evander , Verg. A. 5, 298. ...
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·noun ·see <<Padrone>>, 2. II. Patron ·noun An advocate or pleader. III. Patron ·noun A guardian s...
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