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rags and tatters
vs
tatterdemalion
rags and tatters
noun
very old, torn clothes
something ruined; fragments
tatterdemalion
noun
A person with tattered clothing.
adj
Tattered.
How often have the words
rags and tatters
and
tatterdemalion
occurred in a corpus of books?
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