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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tatterdemalion \Tat`ter*de*mal"ion\, n. [Tatter + OF
desmaillier to break the meshes of to tear: cf OF maillon
long clothes, swadding clothes, F. maillot. See {Tatter}, and
{Mail} armor.]
A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. --L'Estrange.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tatterdemalion
n : a dirty shabbily clothed urchin [syn: {ragamuffin}]
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