A regional dialect (usually one considered substandard) of a language (especially French).
[The Sundanese] are regarded as relatively barbarous, and in the company of Malays or Javanese, they are themselves ashamed of their dialect, which is looked on as a sort of rude patois.
Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti).
Alternative form of Patwa.
Borrowed from French patois (“regional dialect or language”), c. 1635.
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