Definitions for: Tatterdemalion

[n] a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
[adj] in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
[adj] 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, damaged, dilapidated, ragamuffin, ramshackle, tattered, tumble-down, unsound, worn

See Also: urchin

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