tumble-down
[tuhm-buh l-doun]
- dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
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Origin of tumble-down
First recorded in 1810–20
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Contemporary Examples
But Tumbledown is worth sticking with, though, and it blossoms in surprising ways.
Historical Examples
As he spoke he mounted a flight of steps to a tumbledown veranda.
Carmena reined in to jerk her thumb at a tumbledown brush hut.
Bloom of CactusRobert Ames Bennet
It held its sittings in a tumbledown building in an obscure Calcutta lane.
My ReminiscencesRabindranath Tagore
Farina beheld the Thier at the entrance of a tumbledown tent.
The Short Works of George MeredithGeorge Meredith
She noticed a small, tumbledown cottage which stood at the edge of a ravine.
The Deserted YachtMildred A. Wirt, AKA Ann Wirt
tumbledown
- falling to pieces; dilapidated; crumbling
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