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leavings Noun, pl things left behind unwanted, such as food on a plate |
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He was content to eat the leavings, the big tough carrots and the little ropy ones, rather than to venture a short distance farther on to where the carrots were as yet untouched. The porters made friends with him and offered him prodigious quantities of cooked meats from the leavings of the dining-room. This poverty he suffers from in various ways, hunger, or cold, or nakedness, or all together; but for all that it is not so extreme but that he gets something to eat, though it may be at somewhat unseasonable hours and from the leavings of the rich; for the greatest misery of the student is what they themselves call |
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