tatterdemalion

adjective

  1. 1

    in deplorable condition

    a street of bedraggled tenements

    a broken-down fence

  2. 2

    worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing

    a man in a tattered shirt

    the tattered flag

noun

  1. 1

    a dirty shabbily clothed urchin

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