noun
A person wearing ragged or tattered clothing; a ragamuffin.
adjective
Ragged; tattered.
Source:
“No more tatterdemalion a renegado I ever beheld, but Mr. Evans swore the quadroon, Barnabas, was ‘the fleetest sheepdog who ever ran upon two legs.”
Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas: a novel. New York: Random House, 2004: 9.
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