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flotsam

Noun

flot=sam

WORDNET DICTIONARY

is a kind of wreckage

flotsam, n. [F. flotter to float. See FFlotilla, and cf. Jetsam.].

Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

flotsam, n. wreckage found floating.

Idiom

flotsam and jetsam
1 odds and ends; rubbish.
2 vagrants etc.

Etymology

AF floteson f. floter FLOAT

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