scourings

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Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when they had scoured the waterfront boardinghouses, Prince shook his head over their scourings.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

It is not, therefore, as though great age were such a catch that it should demand all these delicate manipulations of diet, sleep, rest-cures, health-resorts, scourings, and temperatures, for its attainment.

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.

Thus gallantly attended, the queen entered the vanquished frontier of Granada, journeying securely along the pleasant banks of the Xenil, so lately subject to the scourings of the Moors.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington

They were generally commanded by ruffians, and manned with desperadoes of all nations—the scourings of the French galleys.

From Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler by Kingston, William Henry Giles