vestige
a small trace or remnant of something that is gone
Word origin: From Latin vestigium, footprint or track.
Vestige in a sentence
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Only a few stone walls remain as a vestige of the ancient city.
The crumbling aqueduct was the last vestige of the settlement that had thrived there two thousand years earlier.
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Using “vestige” well
A vestige is a small trace or remnant of something that is gone, often the only surviving evidence of it. It commonly appears in the phrase a vestige of.
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