Meaning of TATTERDEMALION
| Pronunciation: | | `taturdi'meylyun
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | bedraggled, broken-down, damaged, dilapidated, ragamuffin, ramshackle, tattered, tumble-down, unsound, worn |
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| | See Also: | | urchin | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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