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
Some 500 prisoners rounded up in Coblenz were tatterdemalion survivors of 15 or 20 different outfits.
From Time Magazine Archive
I demurred at first, for I had no mind to be publicly embraced by the tatterdemalion patriots I had seen in the crowd that morning.
From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie
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