tatterdemalion
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Off it flaps on tatterdemalion wings to wreak much CG-enabled property damage on downtown Philadelphia, where the picture is set.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Arriving two weeks before the release of “Bones and All,” Luca Guadagnino’s tatterdemalion drifter romance, the director’s “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” surveys a more refined coupling, not of people, but of pumps.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
They perched on fence posts, on the roofs of vans, in tatterdemalion back yards.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2018
This year Senators and Representatives managed to hold the spotlight only because Superintendent of Police Ernest W. Brown cooped up a tatterdemalion army of 3,000 Red demonstrators in the suburbs two miles from the Capitol.
From Time Magazine Archive
Look at that tatterdemalion, and think how came he by such notions.'
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever
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