oddment
A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
The Lahore Museum was larger, but here were more wonders—ghost-daggers and prayer-wheels from Tibet; […] gilt figures of Buddha, and little portable lacquer altars; Russian samovars with turquoises on the lid; […] arms of all sorts and kinds, and a thousand other oddments were cased, or piled, or merely thrown into the room, […]
[…] there in his hiding-place he kept a few wretched oddments, and one very beautiful thing, very beautiful, very wonderful.
[The chest] was filled with oddments of reference: large-scale maps, back copies of Who’s Who, old Baedekers.
[…] a tall thin man with oddments of old armor buckled on over his ratty pink robes.
(commerce) An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
(printing) A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc.
A person who does not fit in with others or is considered to be strange in some way.
A varied collection (of items).
A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).
Something strange or unusual.
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