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vestiges

[ves-tij]

noun

a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.

a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.

a very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house.

Biology. a degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure that has little or no utility, but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function.

Archaic. a footprint; track.

Origin:
1535–45; < Middle French < Latin vestīgium footprint

Synonyms
1. token. See trace. 3. hint, suggestion.

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Example Sentences

Now the war is over symbols, mere vestiges of the previous two.

They are the ones keeping the last vestiges of small enterprise going.

Her supporters disagree, saying it is part of a plot to keep all vestiges of religion out of the public view.

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Now the war is over symbols, mere vestiges of the previous two.

They are the ones keeping the last vestiges of small enterprise going.

Her supporters disagree, saying it is part of a plot to keep all vestiges of religion out of the public view.

The last vestiges of sunlight gild and burnish the pink walls.

Instead they were the preserved vestiges of dinosaur cell structure.

Technological advances often bury quaint vestiges of simpler times.

Vestiges of his ballet training surface in balances, low arabesques and full-revolution jumps.

The external vestiges of his power were impressive and rigorously promoted.

The vestiges of a dust storm that completely obscured visibility only a few days before was still in the air.

The deepest layers were probably vestiges of powerful storms from the unrecorded past.

He portrays them as corrupt vestiges of a capitalist past and of the previous political order.

The lingering vestiges of the amateur ideal are worth preserving.

Remove all vestiges of tipping, though, and you start to break the link between service and individualised reward.

Democracy in its original conception does not exist except in vestiges to lesser or more extent in the world.

The rehab story, though, is usually a sign that a star is spending the last vestiges of their capital.

Over the years, pressure from the left has eroded such vestiges of religious interference in civil affairs.

Now the last vestiges of baring all as a symbol of dissatisfaction with the system have slipped away too.

Instead, they examined vestiges of the virus that survive today within the human genome.

Reviewed literature on vestiges of discrimination in educational settings.

The mountains are vestiges of ancient eroded seabeds that support graceful bamboo groves and terraced rice paddies.

The outcrops constantly remind you that finding vestiges of lost worlds is equal parts planning and luck.

It is lined with shops and galleries and buildings that still sport vestiges of the town's medieval roots.

For one thing, a close parallel could arise only in states dealing with the vestiges of segregation.

But the program also risks exposing the public to some of the ugliest emotional vestiges of the decade-old conflict.

Tourists wander, sometimes in vain, in search of vestiges.

It's the last vestiges of racism that are hard to get rid of''.

What remains of my city are more subtle vestiges of the historic culture.

There are still vestiges of the vast bodies of knowledge that must have been common place in preliterate cultures.

In some of the earliest dinosaurs, fossils reveal vestiges of two outer digits corresponding to the human ring finger and pinkie.

The first warm breezes of spring have finished the street crews' work, melting the last vestiges of snow.

While things are changing, the process of moving away from these vestiges of a bygone era.

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Word Origin & History

vestige

c.1600, from Fr. vestige "a mark, trace, sign," from L. vestigium "footprint, trace," of unknown origin.

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Medical Dictionary

vestige ves·tige (věs'tĭj)
n.
A rudimentary or degenerate, usually nonfunctioning, structure that is the remnant of an organ or a part that was fully developed or functioning in a preceding generation or an earlier stage of development.

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"The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers."

-Herman Melville

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