Both Uses of
remnant
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Velvet drapes brushed the floor, remnants from the far-flung time when this place had been an elegant estate.†
p. 28.7remnants = small amounts that remains after the rest is gone
- Wind moved over the asphalt, whisking the remnants of snow and a few new flakes, swirling them in corners.†
p. 33.4 *
Definition:
a small amount that remains after the rest is gone -- sometimes specifically of cloth