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A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
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remnant
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context archaic English) Remaining; still left. n. 1 The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group. 2 The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt. 3 An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., contraction of remenant (c.1300), from Old French remanant "rest, remainder, surplus," noun use of present participle of remanoir "to remain" (see remain (v.)). Specific sense of "end of a piece of drapery, cloth, etc." is recorded from early ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Seventh-day Adventist theology , there will be an end time remnant of believers who are faithful to God. The remnant church is a visible, historical, organized body characterized by obedience to the commandments of God and the possession of a unique ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His prey is the charred remnants of a campfire set along a trail in the heart of this tinder-dry wilderness area. ▪ In minutes the last remnants of life on the planet were gone. ▪ The first revolution on the agenda, therefore, ...
Usage examples of remnant.
I know that the Accursed Forest is a remnant of the wild order that once spread across all of Candar before the Firstborn.
When this result is accomplished, the old curve is deserted, sand bars are formed across their mouths, which may gradually grow to broad alluvial plains, so that the long-surviving, crescent-shaped lake, the remnant of the river bed, may be seen far from the present course of the ever-changing stream.
At the necropsy the uterus was found adherent to the anterior wall of the abdomen and containing remnants of a putrid fetus with its numerous bones.
Although he had acquired an autocratic manner and social veneer, there were still remnants of that eager young captain he had once been.
Many showed no magical power at all, and Avelyn soon realized that these were the remnants of previous showers, brought up to the surface by the battering of the storm.
He had agreed with the remnant of the Bellipotent Composition to rendezvous.
Glaurung and to his Master that in Brethil there abode still a remnant of free men, the last of the Three Houses to defy the power of the North.
The worn-out ones had been carted to the foundling home in Brewhouse Lane where the children had been made to dismantle the matted remnants of tar and hemp.
As for myself, who am true Yorkshire also, I take the most honest pride in hearing them describe your elegant attitude, leaning back in your britzska, with your feet on the opposite cushions, your hat arranged aside with that air of undefinable grace characteristic of the Grand Seigneur, and, which is the last remnant of the feudal system, your reiterated orders to drive over an old woman.
Kujawa had climbed onto the bulldozer and were ready to start off, the feeling of anticipation and curiosity that flooded through Ross totally overwhelmed any remnants of the despair that he had felt so strongly only minutes before.
Back at the walled garden near the house, Ana turned to survey the gently sloping terrain down to the jungle, and was hit by its unlikely but striking similarity to another would-be paradise, the remnants of which she had once visited, a hortus conclusus whose inhabitants had tried to keep the outside world at bay while an ideal society was being constructed within the boundaries.
And then, after conversion, though his will is changed, yet, ex infirmitate, there are many things that he cannot do, so strong is the remnant of malignity that is still in his heart.
Shaggy dogs whined at the doors until the mensal remnants were tossed out to them in the front yard.
Though the remnants of the drug still made any focus difficult, she felt the menstruum ambitious in her belly.
A quick glance disclosed the remnants of fur and cloth left lying on the floor near the bed, along with the thread Metis had used in her sewing.