See threadbare in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "His life vvas nigh vnto deaths dore yplaſte, / And thred-bare cote, and cobled ſhoes hee vvare, […]",
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"ref": "1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, W. Bowles, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fifth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 80:",
"text": "VVill any Freedom here from you be born, / VVhoſe Cloaths are thred-bare, and vvhoſe Cloaks are torn?",
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"ref": "1712 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, December 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 42; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 282:",
"text": "We are told, that an ancient tragic poet, to move the pity of his audience for his exiled kings and distressed heroes, used to make the actors represent them in dresses and clothes that were thread-bare and decayed.",
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"ref": "1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Club of Queer Fellows”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 26:",
"text": "No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea, without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.",
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"ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 135:",
"text": "Ah! You may look through that shirt till your eyes ache; but you won't find a hole in it, nor a thread-bare place. It's the best he had, and a fine one too.",
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"ref": "1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Little Mother”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 66:",
"text": "The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see. Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.",
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"ref": "2014 December, Paul Salopek, “Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. On Foot through the Holy Lands”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-02-12:",
"text": "Unkempt, in threadbare clothes, with holed shoes and sun-cured hide, my costume is permanent: the traveler, the man from far away.",
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"word": "acacaxactic"
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"word": "loslitt"
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"word": "beschieet"
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"word": "puído"
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"word": "потёртый"
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"word": "ста́рый"
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"word": "lom"
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"word": "zguljen"
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"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
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"word": "raído"
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"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
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"word": "потертий"
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"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
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"ref": "a. 1530 (date written), John Skelton, “Magnyfycence, a Goodly Interlude and a Mery, […]”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 232, lines 225–226:",
"text": "Welth and wyt, I say, be so threde bare worne, / That all is without measure, and fer beyonde the mone.",
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"ref": "1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section I. The Introduction.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 51:",
"text": "From an Underſtanding and a Conſcience, thread-bare and ragged vvith perpetual turning; […]",
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"ref": "1862, Thomas Carlyle, “Friedrich Starts for Moravia, on a New Scheme He Has”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XIII, page 519:",
"text": "Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out.",
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "versleten"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "kulunut"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "nuhruinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "nukkavieru"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "élimé"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "fadenscheinig"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "xeftisménos",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ξεφτισμένος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ftharménos",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "φθαρμένος"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "ar an bhfáithim"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "barrchaite"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "lom"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "lomchaite"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "scáineach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "scáinte"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "smolchaite"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "rallus"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "íznosen",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "и́зносен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ízližan",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "и́злижан"
},
{
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "acacaxactic"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "loslitt"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "beschieet"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "puído"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "puída"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iznóšennyj",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "изно́шенный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obvetšályj",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "обветша́лый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "potjórtyj",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "потёртый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stáryj",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "ста́рый"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "lom"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"word": "zguljen"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "raído"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pošarpanyj",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пошарпаний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "potertyj",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "потертий"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "znošenyj",
"sense": "of cloth, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show — see also shabby, worn-out",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зношений"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare material",
"word": "nuhruinen"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare material",
"word": "loslitt"
}
],
"word": "threadbare"
}
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