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Dictionary definition for: Tatterdemalion

1. (n) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin

2. (s) 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"

3. (s) in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements" "a broken-down fence" "a ramshackle old pier" "a tumble-down shack"

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