Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting.
A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold.
1 He jotted down the errors the catalogue had, marked the books he wanted, and delighted himself in general with an oddment of lists.
2 I am leaving everything to him, of course, except a few oddments .
3 Look out your oddments and let me see what I can do.
4 I meant to pick up a few oddments in the village.
5 Oddments : The post office at 52 Rue du Louvre never shuts.
6 Polton, give me a pearl shirt-button out of your oddments box.
7 Belgium's claim to Dutch Limburg and other territorial oddments must likewise be allowed.
8 The sight of Peter's plain little oddments made me feel solemn.
9 Never mind if you have left some oddments behind; Elsie can send them on.
10 In addition to this oddments have been arriving all day-instruments ,clothing ,andpersonal effects.
11 The few oddments he used on the voyage, we burned.
12 Among the other oddments is a dish of nice-looking plums.
13 Shops sold drinking cups, gilded statuettes and oddments of armor.
14 Oddments of ink told of old entertainments, while concrete desiccated.
15 Patrolman Willis worked painstakingly with amplifiers on what oddments could be picked up in space.
16 Bast slowly passed his hand over the collection of oddments , eventually stopping above the knife.
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