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• n  an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated
• n  geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared

• Pauline van der Voort Dresser Rogers, 47, relict of Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Walter Hoving, 41, her fourth husband, president of Manhattan's Lord Taylor .
• Agnes Lee Hadley, relict of the late Herbert Spencer Hadley, onetime (1909-13) Governor of Missouri who died in 1927; and Henry Joseph Haskell, editor of the Kansas City Star .
• Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites .

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• Martin Amis in Telegraph.co.uk
  Amis described his own remarks as "a thought experiment" and emphasised that he had never advocated, but merely adumbrated, discriminatory treatment of Muslims: he also dubbed Eagleton "an ideological relict".