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May. 19, 2015

tatterdemalion \tat-er-di-MEYL-yuhn, -MAL-\ adjective 1. ragged; unkempt or dilapidated. noun 1. a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person. Quotes He seemed to fit the tatterdemalion apartment perfectly: his dark clothes threadbare, his beard unkempt, his shoes cracked, with his right foot resting on the floor at an odd angle to the other. -- Chaim Potok, Old Men at Midnight, 2001 Origin Tatterdemalion entered English in the early 1600s. This term was first written tatter-de-mallian and rhymed with battalion.

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