heir-loom

Having been introduced to China through commodities (“When our curious childhood marvelled at ... the ancient heir-loom China”), the poet had grown accustomed to seeing Chinese figures set before idyllic backgrounds of pagodas, tea trees, and pointed roofs.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

So economic forces have conspired to make mild, tender meat the modern norm, but small producers of more mature, flavorful meats, sometimes from rare “heir-loom” breeds, are finding their own profitable market among consumers willing to pay a premium for quality.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

So economic forces have conspired to make mild, tender meat the modern norm, but small producers of more mature, flavorful meats, sometimes from rare “heir-loom” breeds, are finding their own profitable market among consumers willing to pay a premium for quality.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The ring which Mrs. Harris held in her hand, had been for many, many years an heir-loom in the English family to which she belonged.

Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell

No boudoir of white and gold, with pictures by Watteau, but lined with walnut-tree presses, that held the old heir-loom linen strewed with lavender -- stores for the housekeeper, and medicines for the poor.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Ten years had passed, and her name had not been hallooed from groom to groom on a birth-day night, while the pearl neck-lace, a bridal present, and emeralds, an heir-loom from her mother, remained in strict abeyance.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various

The ring which Mrs. Harris held in her hand had been for many, many years an heir-loom in the English family to which she belonged.

The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

The chair is said to have been an heir-loom of at least twenty generations.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

By the will it was directed to be kept as a heir-loom.

Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 Various

Their swords they show with boasts, as having belonged to their ancestors who were pirates, renowned and terrible in their day; and they always speak of their ancestral heir-loom as decayed from its pristine vigor, but still deem the wielding of it as the highest of earthly existences.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel