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Raddled

adjective

Used until no longer useful. Synonym: worn-out. "Worn-out shoes with flapping soles"

Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering. Synonyms: careworn, drawn, haggard, worn. "Her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness" , "That raddled but still noble face" , "Shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"

Raddle

verb

Twist or braid together, interlace. Synonym: ruddle.

Mark or paint with raddle.

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"Raddled" Quotes from Famous Books

... the fancy of the individual wearer. The Bidford man, whom we saw at his really funny antics, had a fox's mask for headgear, the muzzle lying on the man's forehead, the brush hanging down his back. His face was raddled like a clown's; he had a vest of cowhide, with red sleeves; stockings and breeches much like the dancers', and he wore his bells, not on a shin-pad like them, but in a row all round the boot-top. He carried a bladder on the end of a stick, and with it he freely ...

— The Morris Book • Cecil J. Sharp

... picture of yours is worth more than all the paintings of that rascal Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh raddled with vermilion, his torrents of red hair, his riot of color. You, at least have color there, and feeling and drawing—the three ...

— The Unknown Masterpiece - 1845 • Honore De Balzac

... Saturday and felt his youth beat in him pleasantly when he saw her come. She had on a different hat, and the earlier hour showed him the shining of her eyes above the raddled cheeks. ...

— The Lovely Lady • Mary Austin