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- noun Plural form of
draggle-tail .
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Examples
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Indeed it is beneath them to meddle with such dirty draggle-tails; and whatever happens to them, it is good enough for them.
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I flushed crimson and declared resolutely that it was degrading for me to receive a salary for telling scandalous stories of how I had followed two draggle-tails to the
A Raw Youth 2003
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Indeed, it is beneath them to meddle with such dirty draggle-tails; and whatever happens to them, it is good enough for them.
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I see your faces at the doors, rosy from the country or yellowish-white from anæmia and strong tea; see how your young breasts hardly fill out your clinging bodices, all askew, and how your hips are not yet grown to support your skirts properly -- draggle-tails!
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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Wyatt's men entered the city by this approach in the rebellion of 1554, and were called the "draggle-tails" because of their wretched plight.
The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867
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They were clad in dirty jackets and hats, draggle-tails, unkempt and unwashed, with orange and red kerchiefs round their necks (the gipsy colours).
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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Indeed it is beneath them to meddle with such dirty draggle-tails; and whatever happens to them, it is good enough for them.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730
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It’s well seen what choice the most of ’em know how to make, by the poor draggle-tails o’ wives you see, like bits
Adam Bede 2004
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