transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈflät-səm ]
noun
Etymology: Anglo-French floteson, from floter to float, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English flotian to float, flota ship
Date: circa 1607
1. : floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo ; broadly : floating debris
2.
a. : a floating population (as of emigrants or castaways)
human flotsam
b. : miscellaneous or unimportant material
a notebook filled with flotsam and jetsam
c. : debris , remains
the village…built on the flotsam of war — Stan Sesser