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Noun
patelin m (plural patelins)
- (colloquial) backwater, one-horse town
2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule , Le Seuil:Ils commencent l'usine après le collège pis ils restent dans le village toute leur vie ou alors ils s'installent dans un patelin mais pas trop loin.- They start working in the factory after secondary school, then they stay in the village their whole life, or else they move to some backwater, but not too far away.
2016, Jacques Tardi, Dominique Grange, Le dernier assaut, Bruxelles, Paris: Casterman, →ISBN, page 53:Y'avait du monde dans ce patelin… beaucoup de brancos qui chargeaient des grivetons en charpie — tout au moins ceux qui avaient survécu au transport depuis le poste de secours jusqu'ici.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays :Papa venait d'un patelin dans les montagnes qui ressemblait à s'y méprendre´aux paysages du Burundi- Dad came from a small village in the mountains, which might easily be mistaken for the landscape of Burundi
Adjective
patelin (feminine pateline, masculine plural patelins, feminine plural patelines)
- fawning; unctuous
- Synonyms: doucereux, mielleux
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