an old word meaning old, torn and in bad condition
The ten- and fifteen-story tower blocks are adorned in an improbable and tatterdemalion layer of colorful laundry.
Submitted by: Jordy from Australia on 18/11/2014
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also a noun: a person wearing old and ragged clothes
The enfeebled American army was as usual suffering for want of clothing, arms, and food, “ragged tatterdemalions,” as the British officers contemptuously called them.