tattered

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And set deep in these pouched and pendent folds of skin--tattered, blood-stained banners of the hound's past glories--the face of Jan was as a wedge, incredibly long and narrow His eyes had been torn out, it seemed.

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  1. adjective Torn into shreds; ragged.
  2. adjective Having ragged clothes; dressed in tatters.
  3. adjective Shabby or dilapidated.
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  • I didn't grow up on a commune, but I recall a tattered copy of the WEC lurking around the house.
  • His scarlet robes were tattered, his corslet of overlapping brazen plates was rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were drenched with blood. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • Their skins were tattered, their blunt noses buffeted. —  Robin Hobb
  • An American flag hung from a pole, tattered, the fabric so worn he could see through it. —  AHMM,March2008
  • It filled every corner of the house, and finally I took the current book, his recently published Early Reminiscences (which I had unearthed in the study between a tattered issue of the Transactions of the Devonshire Association and a pamphlet by Baring-Gould entitled “How to Save Fuel”) and escaped with it out of doors. —  The Moor - Laurie R King - Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes 04
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woolen ·  crumple ·  threadbare ·  silken ·  shabby ·  sodden ·  dusty ·  shapeless ·  striped ·  scarlet ·  greasy ·  khaki
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Etymologies (1)

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  1. Formerly and dial. also tottered; from Middle English tatered, tatird; from tatter + -ed.
 

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