rags

/ ræɡz /

plural noun

1. torn, old, or shabby clothing

2. cotton or linen cloth waste used in the manufacture of rag paper

3. informal

   1. from poverty to great wealth

   2. ( as modifier )

      a rags-to-riches tale

4. informal,  best clothes; finery

Example Sentences

There were Simon and all three Incorrigibles, sitting next to a heap of rags.

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Kennedy couldn’t shake the nightmare image of two people in rags, huddled in radioactive rubble, wondering how they got there.

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The putrid chamber drama becomes a fantasia, befouled rags turn into tuxedo pants and it’s finally safe to belt how they feel.

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Swift opens her track with: “When I found you, you were young, wayward, lost in the cold / Pulled up to you in the Jag’, turned your rags to gold.”

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We say that the “Cinderella” story is rags to riches, but in all versions, especially the European ones, she is a noble girl put into the kitchen by her wicked stepmother.

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