vestiges

But sponsors stretched the English language when they pitched it as ending the last vestiges of “slavery.”

However, after declaring America's independence from England, Thomas Jefferson and other founders believed their legislative and political actions had already eliminated the remaining vestiges of European feudalism.

Californians are expected to shed the last vestiges of Proposition 8, the 2008 voter-approved measure that banned same-sex marriage and was later declared unconstitutional.

Footwear was one of the last vestiges of my old relationship to clothes.

Even in “Napoleon Dynamite,” Uncle Rico’s plastic food storage container hustle isn’t about domestic bliss; it’s about desperation, clinging to the last vestiges of the American Dream.