vestige

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This concept is a vestige of our savage past.

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an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"

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noun

an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for vestige.

noun

an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"

Example sentences

This concept is a vestige of our savage past.

Filesystems are vestige from the past, not the future.

It's a "why do we cut the ends of the roast off" vestige from old DoD recommendations.

They seem to me to be an evolutionary vestige in a lot of ways.

Most schools are awful, and drive any vestige of curiosity out of the students.

This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished.

This visage, no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished.

This probably was a vestige of the "old boy's network" by which top lawyers and top executives came from a similar elite pedigree and it was regarded as undignified to question professionals about the mysteries of how they worked their craft.

"Baltimore's arcane system of ground rents, widely viewed as a harmless vestige of colonial law, is increasingly being used by some investors to seize homes or extract large fees from people who often are ignorant of the loosely regulated process, an investigation by The Sun has found.