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keepsake
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1790, from keep (v.) + sake ; on model of namesake ; thus an object kept for the sake of the giver. As an adjective by 1839.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Some object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons. 2 (context historical English) Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. something of sentimental value [syn: souvenir , token , relic ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After all, almost everyone who completes the race gets a free, three-day keepsake . ▪ District councillor Richard Groves presented a photographic keepsake to commercial manager Mel Hunt. ▪ Inaugural Committee organizers, who ...
Usage examples of keepsake.
Tahquil drew out the tattered aulmoniere, one of the few keepsakes she had salvaged from Tamhania.
Great Keepsake, where we wait for Scatty and Lugg, who will come by the fens.
Two souvenir cards showed the Waterholm Winter Festival, one depicted the Wis Waterfall, a wedding keepsake portrayed a bride and groom, and so on.
She had her trophies of seaweeds, and a hoard of shells, and some keepsakes from the beach, a broken glass in a plastic frame, a scent bottle, a crushed and empty can of beer.
She threw the armful of clothes on the bed and walked around the room, touching old mementos and keepsakes as memories sailed through her mind.
His eyes were on Catso, who was systematically emptying the coat and waistcoat pockets and tossing a pathetic collection of keepsakes into the dust on the tunnel floor.
Along the wall opposite stood an open cabinet divided into junk-filled cubbyholes, much of it reminiscent of the stuff in Pillbody's shop --bric-a-brac mostly, travel souvenirs and keepsakes.
I don't know who the Bryson was whom this town was so signally honoring, but I had certainly never seen my name spread around so lavishly, and I regretted that I hadn't brought a crowbar and monkey wrench because many of the signs would have made splendid keepsakes.
Servants and dozens of hired workers were busy emptying the place of the vast amount of antiques, keepsakes, and collectibles Golga had amassed in his too-brief reign as consul general.
For reasons that I have never understood, the French have a particular genius when it comes to tacky religious keepsakes, and in a gloomy shop on a corner of the Place d'Armes, I found one I liked: a plastic model of the Virgin Mary standing with beckoning arms in a kind of grotto fashioned from seashells, miniature starfish, lacy sprigs of dried seaweed and a polished lobster claw.