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Travels with Charley
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And Charley, who still had vestiges of his Chicago grooming, waded in the water and became his old dirty self again.
Part 3 *

vestiges = remaining traces of something that was previously there
A little farther along I stopped at a small house, a section of war-surplus barracks, it looked, but painted white with yellow trim, and with the dying vestiges of a garden, frosted-down geraniums and a few clusters of chrysanthemums, little button things yellow and red-brown.†
Part 3

vestiges = remaining traces
Just under the ridge of a pass I stopped for gasoline in a little put-together, do-it-yourself group of cabins, square boxes, each with a stoop, a door, and one window, and no vestige of a garden or gravel paths.†
Part 3

vestige = remaining trace
And if your heart has human vestiges of courage and anger, which in a man are virtues, then you have fear of a dangerous beast, and since your heart has intelligence and inventiveness and the ability to conceal them, you live with terror.†
Part 4

vestiges = remaining traces

Definitions:

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

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.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)