tatterdemalion
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Off it flaps on tatterdemalion wings to wreak much CG-enabled property damage on downtown Philadelphia, where the picture is set.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Arriving two weeks before the release of “Bones and All,” Luca Guadagnino’s tatterdemalion drifter romance, the director’s “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” surveys a more refined coupling, not of people, but of pumps.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
They perched on fence posts, on the roofs of vans, in tatterdemalion back yards.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2018
But next morning Humphrey was cheerily wishing all comers a hearty New Year as his feet sank into melting tar and Liberia's tatterdemalion army of 4,500 men and girls shambled past in gala formation.
From Time Magazine Archive
A subaltern's guard of grenadiers, divided into small parties, did duty in the garden; and it was striking to mark the contrast between these bronzed and war-worn figures, and the reckless tatterdemalion host around us.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James
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