raggery

English

Noun

raggery (uncountable)

1. Rags; ragged clothing.
   • 1830, John Gideon Millingen, Adventures of an Irish Gentleman, page 261:

     If they're of a proper cut, just the boys for the ladies, we rig them out in raggery, shell out the needful, get the marriage articles drawn out […]

   • 1888, The Archivist, volumes 1-5:

     It was clothed in majestic raggery.

See also

• tag-raggery