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a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
adjective
2.
ragged; unkempt or dilapidated.
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Tatterdemalion
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Origin:
1600–10; first written tatter-de-mallian and rhymed with Italian; see tatter1; -de-mallian < ?
1600–10; first written tatter-de-mallian and rhymed with Italian; see tatter1; -de-mallian < ?
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tatterdemalion
"ragged child, person dressed in old clothes," 1608, probably from tatter, with fantastic second element, but perhaps also suggested by Tartar, with a contemporary sense of "vagabond, gypsy."
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