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Definition

a remaining trace (little bit of something) that was previously abundant

vestige = remaining trace

vestige = trace

vestige = remaining trace

French territories and overseas departments exist as vestiges of the colonial empire.

vestiges = remaining traces

The garden, with its golden apples (oranges), is gone now—no vestige of it remains.
Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
William James
The mention of Levin's name seemed to deprive Kitty of the last vestige of self-control.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
With the last vestige of consciousness she jerked her mind and body.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

vestige = trace or remaining bit (of something)

Every vestige of winter was gone from the valley.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

vestige = last trace (or last little remaining bit)

Just like that, every vestige of imagined stability ... has come unraveled.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass

vestige = remaining trace

...most bugger soldiers are females, but with atrophied or vestigial sexual organs.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

vestigial = an unused trace indicative of something once used

this new and culminating atrocity had robbed him of all vestiges of reason or forethought.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds

vestiges = traces

I only ask so that I can focus my thoughts on the group and perhaps pick up any vestiges of a possible Imprint among them.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

vestiges = remaining traces

All vestige of gracious living! Gone completely!
Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie

vestige = trace (little that remained from a time when there was more)

And Charley, who still had vestiges of his Chicago grooming, waded in the water and became his old dirty self again.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

vestiges = remaining traces of something that was previously there

vestige = remaining trace

... a darkness sucking any last vestiges of hope from his heart.
William P. Young -- The Shack

vestiges = traces

vestige = a trace of something

The anatomical illusion that had seemed so real slowly disappeared and—like so much we no longer need but can't give up—became vestigial.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

vestigial = a trace of something that was previously there

All vestiges of the feudal system with its oppression of the poor were abolished.
Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys

vestiges = traces of something that was previously there

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