0 past simple and past participle of patter --
1 to make the sound of a lot of things gently and repeatedly hitting a surface: --
Each of the paintings was used as the centrepiece of a larger area that was richly decorated with birds, small animals, and garlands of flowers on a pattered background.
This was changed c.2008 to three red, pattered curves overlapping each at the bottom of the screen.
Drawings of garments were one of his chief characteristics; he liked to depicted pattered and fringed clothing.
His little feet often pattered; and the beams of this ceiling...
The timbering is painted black while the panels consist of pattered brickwork.
I do not want to crawl over the details of the argument that has raged or pattered about for the last few weeks.
