pattern
/ˈpætɚn/ noun B1- Model, example.
- Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
- 1923 June 18, ‘President Wilson’, Time
- There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.
- Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
- A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
- A representative example.
- The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
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From the library
He cannot possibly serve you as a pattern for your conduct, not being, as you are, a paid servant, but a mere slave—a dog, who, should he fail in his duty towards me, I should not discharge from my service, but kill.”
“Why don’t you introduce this pattern at Scotland Yard?” he continued, taking a pair of steel handcuffs from a drawer.
“The old pattern is good enough,” remarked Lestrade, “if we can only find the man to put them on.”
I’m going up to see if I can borrow a skirt pattern from Mrs.
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