vestige

Today, some defunct European dynasties maintain their chivalric orders as a lingering vestige of the power they once held.

Inmates are sentenced to time behind bars, not forced labor, a vestige of chain gangs and slavery.

In their center-court telling, democracy is a vestige of a long-dead bucket of services and promises on which nobody should plausibly rely anymore.

Solvang, the vestige of a Danish settlement once regarded as something of an oddity of the Central Valley, now has lines out the door of every restaurant.

Recently, another vestige of the 2020 election has begun to rear its ugly head: the so-called “independent state legislature” theory.