draggletailed

British

/ ˈdræɡəlˌteɪld /

adjective

archaic (esp of a woman) bedraggled; besmirched

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draggletailed

To speak of the foul condition into which such draggletailed dresses must soon get is positively sickening.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.

From Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

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