[
UK
/ˈɒdmənt/
]
NOUN
- something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
How To Use oddment In A Sentence
- Mrs. Babbit would bring a pot of the "Soup of the Day" from the adjoining diner for the maids to enjoy with whatever oddment they had brought from home to eat. Everyday Things Made Beautiful
- I devised these flowery egg cosies to use up oddments of yarn that I had dyed.
- Accustomed chiefly to fish, herbs, and roots, the succulent beef had charms which outweighed surprise, and another night was spent in feasting on the "oddments" of the fresh killed beef. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
- But what might have been a fascinating exhibition was just an interesting collection of oddments.
- I had to take a lot of oddments as well, like the marble.
- But beyond the collection of curiosities and oddments, nothing extensive or substantive remains from what he said.
- Eileen looked away, out of the window which she'd curtained with an oddment of purple-striped towelling. LOST CHILDREN
- But beyond the collection of curiosities and oddments, nothing extensive or substantive remains from what he said.
- She took two long steps and seized the marlinespike, yanking it off the desk in a shower of rubbish and clanging oddments. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
- ‘We are very religious,’ he said as he folded his threadbare deckchair and prepared to carry away their bulging bag of oddments.