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noun

Remnant n.

That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc.; residue. "The remnant that are left of the captivity." "The remnant of my tale is of a length To tire your patience."

A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit; a scrap. "Some odd quirks and remnants of wit."

(Com.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

Synonyms: Residue; rest; remains; remainder.

adjective

Remnant adj. Remaining; yet left. (R.) "Because of the remnant dregs of his disease." "And quiet dedicate her remnant life To the just duties of an humble wife."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Remnant" Quotes from Famous Books

... hearty, honest companion as Mr. Isaac Walton would have chosen to go a fishing with. I saw him in his old age and the decay of his faculties, palsy-smitten, in the last sad stage of human weakness—"a remnant most forlorn of what he was,"—yet even then his eye would light up upon the mention of his favourite Garrick. He was greatest, he would say, in Bayes—"was upon the stage nearly throughout the whole performance, and as busy as a bee." ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... come about,' he said; and thereupon related the story of the visit of Olybrius to Aurelia six months ago. It seemed probable that a report of Veranilda's beauty had reached Matasuntha, who wished to adorn her retinue with so fair a remnant of the Amal race. How, he went on to ask, would Marcian excuse himself at Rome for his ...

— Veranilda • George Gissing

... only trace remaining is literally the impression thus deeply cut into their one observer's mind. The fine verse just quoted is the sole remnant, indelibly stamped on the editor's memory, of one of these extinct creations.' Fragments survive of at least four dramas, projected, and brought to various stages of completion, at about this time. Beddoes was impatient of the common restraints; he was dashing forward in the spirit of his own ...

— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey

... walls carried away. Narrow alleys of crumbling fives-courts—that was how Feversham described the place—crossing this way and that and gaping to the stars. Here and there perhaps a broken tower rose up, the remnant of a rich man's house. But of any sign which could tell a man where the hut of Yusef, who had once sold rock-salt in the market-place, had stood, there was no hope in those acres of crumbling mud. The foxes had ...

— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason

... they came to the hunting-lodge, a long, two-storied building of white plaster and timber-work above. The sun had been gone a while beyond the low hills to the west, and in the open place where the house stood only a remnant of the red dust of the sunset still floated in the pellucid air. Here the beeches gave way to solid ranks of pines and firs, and the evening sweetness of these fell upon the senses like the touch of cool water upon tired eyes. The headlights of the motor-cars ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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