A Word A Day — flotsam
Good evening, Netizens…
- flotsam
-
- \FLAHT-sum\
- DEFINITION
noun
1
:
floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo;
broadly
:
floating debris
2
a
:
miscellaneous or unimportant material
b
:
debris, remains
- EXAMPLES
The young couple’s apartment was adorned with the
flotsam
and jetsam of thrift stores and yard sales.
“A current moves at its own pace and pushes along whatever
flotsam
it carries on the surface and below in a stream awash in chaos and chance.” — From an article by Dave Golowenski in
The Columbus
(Ohio)
Dispatch
, October 7, 2012
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