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keepsake

[ keep-seyk ]

noun

  1. anything kept, or given to be kept, as a token of friendship or affection; remembrance.

    Synonyms: memento, souvenir, token



keepsake

/ ˈkiːpˌseɪk /

noun

  1. a gift that evokes memories of a person or event with which it is associated


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Word History and Origins

Origin of keepsake1

1780–90; keep (v.) + sake 1

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Example Sentences

It came time to figure out how to return the keepsake to the Leiter family in New York City.

Before the Leiters left the home in Oberdorf, they hid all their valuables and personal items — including their jewelry, some letters and an 1874 edition of the Jewish Bible — in hopes of returning and retrieving their keepsakes.

The film’s narration characterizes some families as being “appalled that memories of their loved ones are being monetized into tacky branded keepsakes.”

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In addition, she examined actual items enslaved people made and used, uncovering how these keepsakes expressed their experiences and histories.

In two decades, co-founder Marc Katz built a nearly $500 million business by transforming T-shirts from an article of clothing into an emotional keepsake.

I had been thinking about a keepsake from the wedding and saw the toast and thought to myself: 'Why not'?

It was to have appeared in Lady Blessington's Keepsake, presumably in a translation, but was not published in it.

I was at his office to-day, you see, to return him some keepsake of his that I found in an old curiosity shop.

Also, he took the ruby brooch for a friend—and as a sort of keepsake, you know.

With a Spartan-like resolve she at last put every letter and keepsake into the sacrificial flames.

But the keepsake, that had never left its seat for many a year, was too precious to him to be so discarded.

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