(US, historical) Land ownership by patroons.
(US, historical) Land ownership by patroons.
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(US, historical) The position or office of a patroon; landownership (originally of a Dutch colony).
(US, historical) An estate run by a patroon, or under a similar system.
(US) One of the landowning Dutch grandees of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, especially after it became a British possession renamed as New York.
(India, historical) A kind of tenant landholder in India.
(India, historical) The role or position of a patel.