The gipsy women dare not come within gun-shot, and every tatterdemalion of a boy has been frightened from the park.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
There had been a moment, just after he had pulled that telegraph-handle, and the ship, instead of slowly gaining sternway and moving off into the turbulence of her wake, had given another inexplicable shudder, and the bows sank into a sudden deathlike solidity when he rang "stop," as though that noise and that shudder and that almost imperceptible subsidence had been her death-throe, the last struggle of her complicated and tatterdemalion career.
"Command"
William McFee
"My dear, what do you think a tatterdemalion gipsy is going to do to me?
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell