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