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  • noun Plural form of shmatte.

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Examples

  • But my father, my mother, my sister, they were all in the house, and all my mother could do for me was take a basin of water, put it on the end of the bed, and then the shmattes to put on the head.

    Tessie and Pearlie JOY HOROWITZ 1996

  • She had no toys, only a homemade doll fashioned out of shmattes rags.

    Tessie and Pearlie JOY HOROWITZ 1996

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