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This week’s words
cherubic
nidus
pelagic
rutilant
tatterdemalion

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PRONUNCIATION:

(tat-uhr-di-MAYL-yuhn, -MAL-)

MEANING:

adjective: Ragged, tattered.
noun: A person in ragged clothes.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old Norse toturr (rag). The origin of demalion is uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1608.

USAGE:

“This country’s tatterdemalion safety net fails to catch so many in the best of times; the number of people it will let through over the coming months is unfathomable.”
Thomas Beard; Cut. And Action; Artforum International (New York); Jun 2020.

See more usage examples of tatterdemalion in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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