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Meanings of tatterdemalion in English
Catalan
pillastre In deplorable condition.
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Examples for "tattered"
Examples for "tattered"
1
The holiday decorations, no matter how tattered, still went up every year.
2
The gnawed and tattered holes in the bag told their own story.
3
I was already pretty tattered from what had been a tough year.
4
The tattered remnants of the Spanish Arch barely do its history justice.
5
Tempest was in the tattered and dirty finery of a seventeenth-century courtier.
Usage of tatterdemalion in English
1
But its tatterdemalion presence relieved her, and her face jerked up scarlet.
2
There, at the corner near the learned Club-house, halts the tatterdemalion.
3
This tatterdemalion crew of mine is all there is left of my cohorts.
4
A bloodied tatterdemalion of a figure was leaning out of the train's cab.
5
Coronado's first bullet knocked a villainous-looking tatterdemalion clean into the happy hunting grounds.
6
The tatterdemalion was bent over her, practically shouting in her ear.
7
A tatterdemalion, a creature of Faerie, was not the worst choice.
8
The tatterdemalion is quicker still; fled like a guilty thought.
9
And the one with the biggest family of tatterdemalion kids.
10
Nothing more alien could come into the New England life than this tatterdemalion band.
11
At least I assumed the tatterdemalion, filthy forms were theirs.
12
She didn't expect help from the tatterdemalion, but she needed to know where Ailie was.
13
The tatterdemalion released her hands, folded her child's arms across her chest, and hugged herself.
14
He is most likely tending some helpless tatterdemalion, and moving about like a clever nurse.
15
The tatterdemalion clung to her like a second skin, bluish hair flying out behind her.
16
My dear, what do you think a tatterdemalion gipsy is going to do to me?
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