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

Behind this front, held by old tatterdemalion outfits, new armies and new weapons are being tooled to the future strategic pattern of the war in Asia.

From Time Magazine Archive

St. Martin looks round, first, deliberately; becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey.

From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by Ruskin, John