Meaning of tatterdemalion | Babel Free

Definitions

Tattered.

Examples

“The house, on his arrival, seemed in some confusion, as if a catastrophe had happened in the family; and the servants clustered together in the hall, and were unable, or perhaps not altogether anxious, to suppress their merriment at the tatterdemalion figure of the secretary.”

“For the same reason the kings of Europe could not resist the tatterdemalion soldiers of the Convention.”

“Thus, too, we have the woman social reformer, trailing along ridiculously behind a tatterdemalion posse of male utopians, each with something to sell.”

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