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Worn out, as a garment
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threadbare
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Word definitions for threadbare in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from thread (n.) + bare . The notion is of "having the nap worn off," leaving bare the threads.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES threadbare/worn (= very thin and in bad condition ) ▪ It was a dingy room with a threadbare carpet. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ his threadbare cotton shirt ▪ She stood shivering in her threadbare dress. ▪ There ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Threadbare \Thread"bare`\, a. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. ``A threadbare cope.'' --Chaucer. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. --Swift.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of cloth English) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show 2 damaged or shabby 3 (context of a person English) wearing clothes of threadbare material 4 (context of speech English) banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed
Usage examples of threadbare.
Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.
Phoebe Simms was not yet accoutred to appear as Madame Alp at intermission, but Florian and Fitzfarris decided that the triplets were worth displaying even in their duckling-looking garb of threadbare old homespun and big new shoes.
She did not stir even when he laid her on the angareb and covered her with the threadbare blanket.
Comandante Dictator-Designate Franco Milhous Caudillo wore a Ruritanian uniform, quite threadbare but encrusted with medals, tarnished gold braid, sashes, epaulets and crossed bandoliers full of spent cartridge cases.
In an alcove cluttered with piles of threadbare tapestry kneelers, tattered hymnals, even a battered piano, stood two tall cupboards.
Two or three went in loricated jerkins, one in a cuirass of boiled leather, another in an old, threadbare brigandine.
Victor Lutz watched the principal pace the threadbare carpet of his office with growing impatience.
The room itself was a press-wood furniture, threadbare sheets and mildewy carpet sort of place.
Everything was old, but not old enough for beauty: shabby furniture of last century, odds and ends of china, threadbare carpets, darned curtains, oleographs on the walls - a home carefully kept, but without comfort or grace.
Inti and his crew, who, following dinner, took a bottle of pisco, threadbare blankets, and the banana-splattered mosquito netting and disappeared into the bush.
The now rustless battle weapons hanging from the walls had been polished to a fine sheen, but the few tapestries and banners which lined the walls drooped threadbare with age and neglect.
The wind scrabbled curiously at his threadbare black clothing, seeking to touch the thin flesh stretched tight over his ribs.
Relying on the anarchy in France and his arrangements with the Duke of Burgundy, and hoping by military successes to unite the English behind the house of Lancaster, Henry V took up the old war and the threadbare claim to the French crown which had not gained in validity by passing to him through a usurper.
Blood spotted the sheet over him and blotched the rags thrown down near a water pitcher not far away, and the threadbare nightshirt he wore was damp with sweat.
The threadbare white towels were designed for midgets, but she still felt marginally more human by the time she stepped back into the room, clean underwear and a silk bathrobe wrapped securely around her still-damp body.