castoff

alternative cast-off

1. not comparableDiscarded, rejected.

plural castoffs · alternative cast-off

1. Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject.

   Found art is created when odd, disparate, unlikely, even long-abandoned castoffs are put together with other similarly unexpected remnants to create something new and, if all goes as planned, lovely.

   2009, Leeana Tankersley, Found Art: Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places, page 13