All 4 Uses of
vestige
in
Snow Falling on Cedars
- Art found that he could not bring forward the least vestige of professionalism.†
Chpt 2
- in his high school days Abel Martinson had been moderately restless, that in the interim between then and now he had changed, and that this truck was the last vestige of his former self:
Chpt 6 *vestige = trace (small amount)
- One part bacchanal, one part tribal potlatch, one part vestigial New England supper, the entire affair hinged on the coronation of the Strawberry Princess—always a virginal Japanese maiden dressed in satin and dusted carefully across the face with rice powder—in an oddly solemn ceremony before the Island County Courthouse at sundown of the inaugural evening.†
Chpt 7
- In his thoughts were vestiges of old skid roads and forgotten farm paths that bled into vales of ghost fern and hollows filled with skunk cabbage.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(vestige) a remaining trace (little bit of something) that was previously abundanteditor's notes: In biology, vestige (especially in the form vestigial) references a part of the body that is underdeveloped and no longer used, but which formally was an important body part. As in: Darwin believed vestigial organs are evidence of evolution.