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rem⋅nant

[rem-nuhnt]
–noun
1. a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
2. a fragment or scrap.
3. a small, unsold or unused piece of cloth, lace, etc., as at the end of a bolt.
4. a trace; vestige: remnants of former greatness.
–adjective
5. remaining; leftover.

Origin:
1300–50; ME remna(u)nt, contr. of remenant < OF, prp. of remenoir to remain


rem⋅nant⋅al, adjective


1. remainder, residue, residuum, rest, remains.
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Word Origin & History

remnant 
c.1350, from O.Fr. remanant, prop. prp. of remanoir "to remain" (see remain). Specific sense of "end of a piece of drapery, cloth, etc." is recorded from 1433.
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