It's here where the backing dancers come to play, dressed in the style of gear which suggests a
raggle-taggle band of outsiders who come together to support Kylie on her adventures.
Edith Walton's review of the expanded edition in the New York Times provides a typical example of this conflation: "Apparently Miss Porter is thoroughly familiar with the
raggle-taggle of American radicals, artists, and writers who haunt Mexico City" (1935).
The electorate trail sheep-like behind a
raggle-taggle of hereditary feudals and fading sportsmen all with a leavening of clerics.
WELL, another Wednesday has come and gone and I have dutifully carried out my "
raggle-taggle" collection of recycling bags and boxes and then rounded them up again.
It's as close to the
raggle-taggle romantic life as most of us are ever likely to get.
IN 1965, LUIS VALDEZ AND A GROUP of farmworkers founded the first theatre of its kind in this country: a
raggle-taggle troupe dedicated to educating farmworkers about the need for a union.
I will vote with my heart, but I know I'm in good company, unlike the
raggle-taggle bunch of rank amateurs running the Leave campaign.
We will probably never know how many lives were ruined by these officers using a hammer to crack a nut of
raggle-taggle protest groups.
A precocious child, she learned to read on her own at age five while bedridden with pneumonia, and shared a special "fantasy life" with her beloved paternal Irish grandmother, Mary Agnes, who recounted old ballads and stories such as the "the
Raggle-Taggle Gypsies" (8-9).
THE prohibitive cost of policing that EDL
raggle-taggle assortment - most of whom chose to protest in a bar - was wasted.
A self-called "
raggle-taggle Gypsie," musician and musicologist, political writer, participant in many of the crucial global affairs of the interwar period, a fascist fellow-traveler who supported Mussolini's regime for several of its early years and an Irish/ British patriot involved in the war effort against Hitler at the same time, prolific author, controversial speaker and global traveler.
Most of all, I shall continue to buy my Christmas gifts and treats from the loyal, beleaguered shopkeepers who trade in this city all year round rather than from a
raggle-taggle mob of itinerant chancers here to line their pockets, then disappear for another 12 months.