Meaning of threadbarity | Babel Free

Definitions

Threadbareness.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“The unsuccessful artist, certainly, is sometimes a most picturesque creature. So is the model. The rags and duds and threadbarity too often enter largely into the picturesque.”

“[…] and you will find yourself wondering if it could be true, that a town could join in such spontaneous holiday, […] despite tuberculosis, despite threadbarity, despite pennilessness […]”

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