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Tatterdemalion

Tatterdemalion Meaning & Definition
Tatterdemalion Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tatterdemalion?

[n] a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
[adj] in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
[adj] worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Tatterdemalion: bedraggled | broken-down | damaged | dilapidated | ragamuffin | ramshackle | tattered | tumble-down | unsound | worn

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See Also | urchin

Tatterdemalion In Webster's Dictionary

\Tat`ter*de*mal"ion\, n. [Tatter + OF. desmaillier to break the meshes of, to tear: cf. OF. maillon long clothes, swadding clothes, F. maillot. See {Tatter}, and {Mail} armor.] A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. --L'Estrange.

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