Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "cast-offs".
He wanted to go from mine to farm to the new villages the white men were building where his comrades now laboured with pick and shovel instead of the silver blade, wearing the ragged cast-offs of their masters rather than the plumes and kilts of the regiment.
It was impossible to tell their racial origins, for they were all painted with fat and clay to look like Matabele, and they wore cast-offs and tribal dress.
It seemed like coming home to be wearing Roland's cast-offs again, he had always been a year behind him.
Leandre appeared to be wearing, in part at least, the cast-offs of nobleman, the newcomer appeared to be wearing the cast-offs of M.
I wear khaki Army cast-offs and a red brocade shirt that I didn't want to leave behind, held together with safety pins.
Assad was right about my rags, too -- I've caught quite a few tourists giving me funny glances cause my Chinese face and my punk hair and the cast-offs all together mark me out.
The tables and chairs might have been cast-offs from the Hotel Booze when it redecorated in 1911.
His clothing hung on him, the sleeves of his shirt and the legs of his pants sawed off, marking them as the cast-offs of a larger man.
It's also full of cast-offs from the big house, and Aunt Queen is famous for refurnishing the front room and giving all the old items to Jasmine, as if Jasmine had a warehouse rather than a family home.