Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in tatters; very ragged.
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Examples
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Is that why I keep seeing ministers with outrageously split ends and tattery, witchy hair out and about?
Archive 2006-10-22 PeaceBang 2006
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Is that why I keep seeing ministers with outrageously split ends and tattery, witchy hair out and about?
Witchy Hair PeaceBang 2006
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I didn't meet some girl with homs, her clothes all tattery and covered with burrs, her hair a thicket, her eyes ...
Greenmantle De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1985
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