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TATTERS

Traducere în limba română

tatters substantiv pl.

1. zdreanţă, buleandră;

to tear to tatters a rupe în bucăţi, a face praf.

2. (fam.) cerşetor, calic, vagabond.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Mugridge went down on the fore-hatch under three men; but he emerged from the mass like an eel, bleeding at the mouth, the offending shirt ripped into tatters, and sprang for the main-rigging.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He was clothed with tatters of old ship's canvas and old sea-cloth, and this extraordinary patchwork was all held together by a system of the most various and incongruous fastenings, brass buttons, bits of stick, and loops of tarry gaskin.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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