'vestiges' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the traces or remnants of something that is in the process of disappearing or has disappeared. Example: The only vestiges left of the once-thriving town were a few crumbling buildings.
The Jurassic bones I uncovered at the Dystrophaeus quarry, as well as those on display in museums all over the world, are the biological vestiges of creatures unlike just about anything alive today.
Opened in 2012, the school nestles amid the vestiges of a shantytown where urban sprawl meets the vineyards of the Maipo valley.
Goldman may also have been helped by being one of the last Wall Street firms to go public, in 1999: the vestiges of partnership have had less time to erode.
These vestiges are two remaining sections that sit oddly with Australians' evident pride at having built a successfully multicultural country.
Even if life or its vestiges are found on Europa then it would still be necessary to prove that the organisms had not hitched a ride into space from Earth, either on a spacecraft or from rocks ejected into space by an asteroid impact.
The only vestiges of a Jewish homeland were pockets like Tel Adashim where, in the dark cow-barn, Rafael and his father would sit on milking stools and swap dream-talk about Israel.General Eitan, an instinctive soldier, was also a farmer to his bones.
It has vastly expanded the state's media interests, from which all vestiges of dissent have been expunged; and it has gradually closed, browbeaten or infiltrated almost every independent outlet.In this section Out of sight, not out of mind Who needs them?
But the government still needs to erase the last vestiges of its antipathy for private health-care.
As interior minister in President Ricardo Lagos's government since 2000, he negotiated agreements with the right-wing opposition, including one to abolish authoritarian vestiges in Chile's constitution.Mr Insulza would have won anyway.
DESPITE being written off as stillborn, the peace plan presented last week by Egypt and Jordan, and approved by Yasser Arafat, still flickers with vestiges of life.
An official default on Pakistan's international loans, which the government has so far managed to avoid, would destroy the last vestiges of confidence in the economy.An oil credit from Saudi Arabia and a $250m handout from Kuwait have helped the government muddle through until now; further aid, it is claimed, is on the way.
