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Tatterdemalion

noun
1.
A dirty shabbily clothed urchin.  Synonym: ragamuffin.
adjective
1.
Worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing.  Synonym: tattered.  "The tattered flag" , "Tied up in tattered brown paper" , "A tattered barefoot boy" , "A tatterdemalion prince"
2.
In deplorable condition.  Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down.  "A broken-down fence" , "A ramshackle old pier" , "A tumble-down shack"





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"Tatterdemalion" Quotes from Famous Books



... open window above, staring down on the tatterdemalion throng, remembered his first meeting with the Big Chimney men as the Washington City steamed out of San Francisco's Golden Gate a year and ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... rare invention? Who urged him forward from modest to magnificent lies? Who fed and flattered him? What ladies bestowed their soft caresses on Sludge? And now and again in his course of fraud did he not turn a wistful eye towards any reckless tatterdemalion, if only the vagrant lived in ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden
... her. With a satisfied tug he pronounced the thing finished and wheeled round to regard his associates. "Now, you young wretches—" and the words froze on his lips, for in the place of two tatterdemalion boys he saw a young girl holding his line limply and ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... us how irresistible is the might of a strong belief. Invincible Rome herself had to bow before the armies of nomad shepherds illuminated by the faith of Mahommed. For the same reason the kings of Europe could not resist the tatterdemalion soldiers of the Convention. Like all apostles, they were ready to immolate themselves in the sole end of propagating their beliefs, which according to their dream ...
— The Psychology of Revolution • Gustave le Bon


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