aide-mémoire

[eyd-mem-wahr, ed-mey-mwar]

noun

plural

aide-mémoire 

1. a memorandum summarizing a discussion, agreement, or action.

aide-mémoire

/ ˈeɪd mɛmˈwɑː, ɛdmemwar /

noun

1. a note serving as a reminder

2. a summarized diplomatic communication

Word History and Origins

Origin of aide-mémoire¹

1840–50; < French: literally, (that which) aids (the) memory

Word History and Origins

Origin of aide-mémoire¹

from aider to help + mémoire memory

Example Sentences

When she travels, Gou takes notes of how she feels as a sort of aide-memoire.

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Much of it reads like an aide-memoire, quickly jotted notes one might return to later for a different sort of book.

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How the toy-to-boy communication takes place, however, remains unclear for quite a while, because Malone refuses to part with his aide-mémoire.

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After all, if fashion teaches us anything, it is how easy it is to forget, even with a physical object left behind as an aide-mémoire.

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The campaign has made a virtue of the confusion, printing its go-to phonetic aide-mémoire — BOOT-edge-edge — on T-shirts.

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