tatty
Example Sentences
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They got out with Tatty Jane the dog and Helen the parrot, but had to leave behind the chickens and goldfish that lived in their backyard.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025
Two gifted young musicians, twins named Charlotte and Sonja, dazzle crowds playing their instruments in a vaguely Victorian traveling circus alongside their sort-of adoptive mother, a tattooed lady named Tatty.
From Time • Dec. 3, 2015
They have flatteringly demurred, and cellist Tatty Theo from time to time seems to think that I really am him.
From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2012
The UK company Tatty Devine started with two designers making jewellery from found objects and selling them at markets.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2012
Now Tatty, when Sir Oliver had led Ruth indoors and presented her as his affianced wife, had been taken aback; not scandalised, but decidedly— and, for so slight a creature, heavily—taken aback.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
