The porch light flicked on as the draggle-tailed stray nosed its way under the fence, a trail of muddy pawprints behind it.

The town gossip labeled her a draggle-tail and avoided her door.

He frowned at the draggle-tail flag flapping from the mast, its torn stripes and grime a testament to years at sea.

We found a line of draggle-tails trailing from the hedge where the dogs had been playing.