Very old, torn, and worn out clothing, as worn by beggars.
1Their clothes were bubbling in the hot spring in rags and tatters.
2The entire village seemed unwashed and dressed in rags and tatters.
3Our flannel shirts and woolen undergarments hung from us in rags and tatters.
4They began patiently sewing the rags and tatters back into usable form again.
5Not even rags and tatters could have made Loristan seem insignificant or undistinguished.
6They were things of rags and tatters-theironly luggage a bottle of whiskey.
7Look at the clothing on my back -allrags and tatters.
8His stiff dignity hung about him in rags and tatters.
9We made sport of our rags and tatters and laughed the English to scorn.
10Are you destitute of even the moral rags and tatters a Hottentot may boast?
11Bullets sparked off his armour and his coat tore away in rags and tatters.
12If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside.
13Their clothes were in rags and tatters, and they had a very wretched, starved appearance.
14His dress consisted of rags and tatters, and his countenance resembled that of a robber.
15You are to be five beggars, two men and three women, all rags and tatters.
16What a thing of rags and tatters, an Emperor "drawn" like a fowl!