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noun
scrap:
There was only a remnant left., noun
small piece, a trace:
Only a remnant of the original remained.
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noun ADJ. small | last, surviving The museum is one of the last remnants of the 17th-century palace. | faint, tattered the tattered remnants of the flag (figurative) faint remnants of the city's glorious past PREP. ~ from (figurative) Their outdated attitudes are a remnant from colonial days. PHRASES a remnant from/of the past
Oxford Collocations Dictionary