The Mütter Museum, a 19th-century repository of medical oddments and arcana at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, attracts as many as 160,000 visitors a year.

“For eight dreary decades they plodded along in near‐obscurity, mere oddments in the game of baseball’s great geometric design,” Wells Twombly wrote.

From the A Western Harvest Field By Moonlight EP, another grab bag of early lint-covered oddments, Lampshade has one of Beck’s first truly indelible melodies.

The temporary lodger, in his turn, stood and bowed to them, then returned to his pack of wooden oddments, sorting, arranging and polishing.

And in crazy quilts, oddments of fabric rub up against each other to the point of dizziness.