Meaning & use
patroon
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A landholder with manorial rights over tenants, especially under the Dutch colonial system in what is now New York.
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The patroon controlled vast tracts of land along the Hudson River.
Tenant farmers owed rent and labor to the local patroon.
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A historical term specific to Dutch colonial America, rarely used outside that context.
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