castoff

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castoff

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Deverbal from cast off.

adjective cast-off

not comparable Discarded, rejected.

noun castoffs · cast-off

Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject. Found art is created when odd, disparate, unlikely, even long-abandoned castoffs are put together with other similarly unexpected remnants to create something new and, if all goes as planned, lovely.

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@misc{castoff_2026,
  title = {castoff},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/castoff},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}