The word 'tatter' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used as a noun or verb to describe something that is frayed, torn, or in a state of disrepair. Example 1 (Noun): The old shirt was full of tatters, with holes and frayed edges all over. Example 2 (Verb): She carefully tattered the edges of the paper to create a distressed look for her art project.
Perkus Tooth had already been at a watershed, wishing to find an exit from himself, from his life and his friends, his tatter of a career — to shed it all like a snakeskin.
"The gradual erosion of this basic liberty can only tatter the constitutional fabric upon which this nation was built," the opinion said.
The violence in Jonglei, South Sudan's largest and most populous state, threatens to destabilize the country and tatter the credibility of its fledgling, American-backed government.
An inmate "judge" swore in each witness by asking him to raise his left foot and answer the question: "Do you pompously swear that you will tear, tatter, transmogrify and torture the truth, the whole truth and everything but the truth, so help you Jeff Davis?" Follow Disunion at twitter.com/NYTcivilwar or join us on Facebook.
There are obvious victims of this process – we get fleeting glimpses of pitiful, Abu Ghraib-like scenes and a line of prisoners shuffling round in a circle, their nationalistic dance reduced to a weak-limbed tatter – but ultimately, Shechter suggests, we all end up victims of the lie, and none more so than those, like the knight, who subscribe most selflessly to it.
Could I believe that that deceived and coerced "I" is in fact my soul, my soul "fastened to a dying animal / It knows not what it is" – from Yeats, surely, but I can't remember which poem, and of course he believed in the soul almost as a physical being – "unless, Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress".
He's pretty much always in his ratter-tatter Victorian tuxedo from the night of the tragedy.
In the film noir The Tattered Dress (1957), Stewart is seen in the sensational credit sequence having her dress ripped by her lover, then driving home drunk to her jealous husband.
Tattered and bloodied papers belonging to Aden Hashi Ayro, a commander of the jihadist militia connected to the Islamic courts, have been recovered, but it is not clear if Mr Ayro bled to death or escaped.Either way, the sense of inviolability the jihadists once exuded is gone.
The Tattered Cloak (1991) is a collection of some of her early short stories translated into English.
"Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste," was how McCarthy described the father and son on their grim odyssey south across America toward the coast.
