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tattered

[tat-erd] / ˈtæt ərd /


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Tattered curtains, matted carpets and missing shower heads were replaced.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Tattered sandbags and piles of discarded barbed wire.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023

For a time she operated a bookstore in Parker, Colo., near Denver, and in 1974 she bought the Tattered Cover, initially a 950-square-foot shop.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2023

In 1974, she bought the struggling Tattered Cover.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

Tattered but freshly swept carpets covered the highly polished hardwood floors, and the rooms were filled with antique velvet-covered chairs inherited from my great-grandma.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals




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