threadbare

hiutunut

kulunut puhekieltä shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show
2014, (w), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text

Unkempt, in threadbare clothes, with holed shoes and sun-cured hide, my costume is permanent: the traveler, the man from far away.

Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out.