Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tatterdemalion \Tat`ter*de*mal"ion\, n. [Tatter + OF.
desmaillier to break the meshes of, to tear: cf. OF. maillon
long clothes, swadding clothes, F. maillot. See {Tatter}, and
{Mail} armor.]
A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tatterdemalion
adj 1: worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a
man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up
in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a
tatterdemalion prince" [syn: {tattered},
{tatterdemalion}]
2: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
"a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-
down shack" [syn: {bedraggled}, {broken-down}, {derelict},
{dilapidated}, {ramshackle}, {tatterdemalion}, {tumble-down}]
n 1: a dirty shabbily clothed urchin [syn: {ragamuffin},
{tatterdemalion}]
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