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HOME | Definition of tatterdemalion (TATTERDEMALION, Tatterdemalion)


    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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