Lexicographical Neighbors of Tattery
Literary usage of Tattery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"TATTER-WALLETS, TATTER-WALLOPS, a tatterdemalion, a ragged person. Often applied
jocosely to one who wears a much-torn dress. tattery, frayed out. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Tatters; rags in a fluttering state. [Scotch.] tattery (tat'er-i). a. ...
Jet-black, tattery wig. Carlyle, In Fronde, I. 262. tattie, n. ..."
3. Just So Stories for Little Children by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"The tattery-looking thing across the river is the Man's salmon-net to catch salmon
with. There are nice clean stones leading up from the river to the mouth ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"There were taken here a good few " ladies of quality in carriages ;" — and above
a hundred Irish ladies not of quality, tattery camp-followers " with long ..."
5. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1885)
"It was very hot and disagreeable inside ; a huge grazier fast asleep, a
detestable-looking parson with yellow skin arid jet-black tattery wig, ..."
6. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
"The tattery-looking thing across the river is the Man's salmon- net to catch
salmon with. There are nice clean stones leading up from the river to the mouth ..."
7. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"... with six companies of the Eleventh to follow le with the object above named,
and to take the • r f-шг companies to the support of Rabb's tattery, ..."
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