tatterdemalion : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tatterdemalion	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tatterdemalion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tatterdemalion 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" Synonym(s): tattered, tatterdemalion in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble- down shack" Synonym(s): bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down n a dirty shabbily clothed urchin [syn: ragamuffin, tatterdemalion]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tatterdemalion \Tat`terdemal"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.