Thread″bare′ (?), a. 1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. “A threadbare cope.” Chaucer.
2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. Swift.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.