rejectamenta

Related to rejectamenta: putrescence

rejectamenta

(rɪˌdʒɛktəˈmɛntə)
pl n
1. things that have been thrown away as worthless
2. (Nautical Terms) rubbish washed up by the sea
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
References in periodicals archive ?
As the collection began to grow Stella and her husband moved it to the South coast, and set up a museum called Rejectamenta at East Wittering in West Sussex.
Treasure trove the world has thrown away; HISTORY A Shropshire museum has become the final resting place for some of our treasured household items from times gone by. Chris Upton visits the Land of Lost Content
A recent Ontario case shows the magnitude to which devotion to rejectamenta can go.
Castle, condo, cottage, cesspit: home upkeep from the municipal perspective
The two-volume American Poetry anthology of nineteenthcentury verse edited by John Hollander offers a much more generous selection of Emerson--so generous, indeed, that it includes fully 40 percent of the essential oeuvre (not counting the rejectamenta and critical apparatus that bulk out the page count of the Collected Poems).
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations
You don't have to confine yourself to reusing your own rejectamenta: Dive headfirst into the waste stream and shop second-hand.
Worn again
From such random assembling came a collection, which she called "Rejectamenta." In 1991, it became the base for a museum at East Wittering in Sussex.
Contents of an ancient history
Full browser ?