left-behind

Noun

left-behind (plural left-behinds)

1. An item that was left behind when someone departed.
   • Breakfast when they return is at the little kitchen table where Max has eaten thousands of meals, and every morning, without fail, the old man slides a ripped-off chunk of toast and a piece of banana to the dog at his feet, precisely the behavior experts at Guiding Eyes for the Blind had warned...2012, Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor's Heart, →ISBN
   • First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.2014, Dolores Knowles, Musings, →ISBN, page 119