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Meanings of oddment in English

Portuguese
curiosidade
Catalan
raresa
Spanish
peculiaridad

Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting.

        curiosidade
        Portuguese
        resto
        Spanish
        resto

        A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold.

              resto
              Usage of oddment in English
              1
              He jotted down the errors the catalogue had, marked the books he wanted, and delighted himself in general with an oddment of lists.
              The new yorker
              2
              I am leaving everything to him, of course, except a few oddments.
              The lord of the rings
              3
              Look out your oddments and let me see what I can do.
              The Lady of the Basement Flat
              4
              I meant to pick up a few oddments in the village.
              The Vanished Messenger
              5
              Oddments: The post office at 52 Rue du Louvre never shuts.
              The Irish Times
              6
              Polton, give me a pearl shirt-button out of your oddments box.
              John Thorndyke's Cases / related by Christopher Jervis and edite...
              7
              Belgium's claim to Dutch Limburg and other territorial oddments must likewise be allowed.
              The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
              8
              The sight of Peter's plain little oddments made me feel solemn.
              Mr. Standfast
              9
              Never mind if you have left some oddments behind; Elsie can send them on.
              The Fortunes of the Farrells
              10
              In addition to this oddments have been arriving all day-instruments ,clothing ,andpersonal effects.
              Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
              11
              The few oddments he used on the voyage, we burned.
              The Box with Broken Seals
              12
              Among the other oddments is a dish of nice-looking plums.
              Peeps at Many Lands: Japan
              13
              Shops sold drinking cups, gilded statuettes and oddments of armor.
              The lost books of the odyssey
              14
              Oddments of ink told of old entertainments, while concrete desiccated.
              Iron Council
              15
              Patrolman Willis worked painstakingly with amplifiers on what oddments could be picked up in space.
              A Matter of Importance
              16
              Bast slowly passed his hand over the collection of oddments, eventually stopping above the knife.
              Rogues
              Translations for oddment
              Oddment through the time