What is "mementoes"

Usage examples of "mementoes".

The office walls were crowded with mementoes, but they were all battalion and division mementoes, war-game trophies, battle honours, old platoon photographs in faded monochrome.

She tried to pry it loose, until a thought intruded: Was she doing as Ben did, taking mementoes of a fire?

Of course we visited it, and came away as wise as most people do who go and gaze upon such mementoes of the past when in an unreflective mood.

And next evening there was to be a great raffle of the mementoes we had bought, but Father would not let us go to that.

Though his record as a fighter pilot had been flawless, Orlov carried physical and mental mementoes from his years in space.

The rest of the room was decorated with photographs, models, awards, and mementoes of his years in space, including a display case with his prize possession, a switch panel from the crude capsule that had carried Yuri Gagarin on the first manned flight into outer space.

Reacher stepped the other way and looked at the mementoes on the wall.

There was one little section, after the break-in there, when she and Pascal first went into her bedroom, and he showed her what had been done with her Beirut mementoes, and what had been done to her nightdress.

Ev'rywhere he looks are Squalid Mementoes of his History in the Town, one Station after another upon a Progress Melancholick.

For years they’ve bombarded me with letters, wanting Laura’s own letters—wanting manuscripts, mementoes, interviews, anecdotes—all the grisly details.