trace
noun
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige.
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On Conception Day I bet the headman will be tracing the figure eight with his feet on his way home.”
From The Mantle and Other Stories by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich