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draggletailed

British

/ ˈdræɡəlˌteɪld /

adjective

archaic (esp of a woman) bedraggled; besmirched

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I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.

From Pygmalion by Shaw, Bernard

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

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