Crossword-Solution: TATTERDEMALION 14 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Fish-hawkers were crying their wares, and there was a tatterdemalion piper making the night hideous at a corner.

Challoner and his companion followed the movement, and walked for awhile in silence in that tatterdemalion crowd; but as one after another, weary with the night’s patrolling of the city pavement, sank upon the benches or wandered into separate paths, the vast extent of the park had soon utterly swallowed up the last of these intruders; and the pair proceeded on their way alone in the grateful quiet of the morning.

The house, on his arrival, seemed in some confusion, as if a catastrophe had happened in the family; and the servants clustered together in the hall, and were unable, or perhaps not altogether anxious, to suppress their merriment at the tatterdemalion figure of the secretary.

Frippery? Superannuated frippery? I’ll frippery the villain; I’ll reduce him to frippery and rags, a tatterdemalion!—I hope to see him hung with tatters, like a Long Lane pent-house, or a gibbet thief.

How should this wretched tatterdemalion whom he had invited, Caliph-like, to sit at his feet know his name? Not at first, but soon, little by little, the suspicion, wild and unreasonable as it was, stole into his brain.