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

Last week, with 700 other pilgrims from Portugal's now tatterdemalion empire, another King Dom Pedro, successor to an empty title, was in Rome to celebrate the canonization of Portugal's missionary saint, Jo?o de Britto.*

From Time Magazine Archive

The room was a tatterdemalion rococo barbarized more completely by gothic embellishments that nevertheless gave it the atmosphere of the fantasts with whom Michael had identified it.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton