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Definition of: patroon
(pə·tr
n′) noun
1. Formerly, a holder of entailed estates, chiefly in New York and New Jersey, with manorial rights, under old Dutch law.
2. Obs. The master of a vessel; also, the steersman. [<Du. <F patron <L patronus. See PATRON.]
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