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ˌtagˈraggery
[f. tag-rag + -ery, collective. (Chiefly Carlylese.)]
A tag-rag collection or assemblage; a mass of trumpery odds and ends.
1837Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 66 When one is delivered from the tag-raggery of printers' devils. 1845Carlyle Cromwell App. xi. (1871) V. 188 note, Antiquarian tagraggeries. 1858― Fredk. Gt. iv. vii. I. 454 Was there ever seen such a travelling tagraggery of a Sovereign Court before? 1887Sat. Rev. 30 July 139/1 The ‘inventing fiend’..has upset the war-ship so utterly, and has pestered it about with such a tag-raggery of small machines. |