oddment

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This Elevator more than pays its way; indeed the Army is saving money out of it, which is put by to purchase other buildings Then there are houses where the people employed in the paper-works lodge, a recently-acquired home for the better class of men, which was once a mansion of the De Clifford family, and afterwards a hospital, and a store where every kind of oddment is sold by Dutch auction.

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  1. noun Something left over.
  2. noun Odds and ends.
  3. noun An oddity.

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  • I shut my eyes to recall every hairy inch of carpeting, every fringe, every rococo ceiling oddment, all, all brasswork decor, firedog, switchplates, log-bucket, and doorknob. —  I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC! - Ray Bradbury
  • You could always carry one in the pen pocket of your CVC coveralls, where it would tear a hole in the sleeve, or you could put it in the TC's oddment box under his armrest, where it was a pain in the butt to get to, or you could stick it into the foam pad on the spent brass box, where you'd bend it getting in and out of the gunner's station. —  Kit Up
  • There's also a CD-sized, covered storage box on the fascia for eyewear and cell-phones, as well as two little oddment bins in the centre console. —  Motoring
  • This Elevator more than pays its way; indeed the Army is saving money out of it, which is put by to purchase other buildings Then there are houses where the people employed in the paper-works lodge, a recently-acquired home for the better class of men, which was once a mansion of the De Clifford family, and afterwards a hospital, and a store where every kind of oddment is sold by Dutch auction. —  Regeneration
  • I never officially announced the new oddment blog so a quick description: I'll be making a thousand oddment paintings. —  RVABlogs
 

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