Tatterdemalion \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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tatterdemalion
adj 1: 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" [syn: tattered]
2: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
"a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a
tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated,
ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound]
n : a dirty shabbily clothed urchin [syn: ragamuffin]
WordNet (r) 2.0
bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ragamuffin, ramshackle, tattered, tumble-down, unsound
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