memento

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  1. noun A reminder of the past; a keepsake.

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  • Mr. Birney made a most graceful speech in presenting the memento, and Lord Brougham was equally happy in receiving it. —  Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
  • I have only enough for memento, and already on Wednesday I consider myself in clear sunshine, without the shadow of the wings of the destroying angel. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • He had saved it as a memento, thinking somehow that the bottle alone would be worth money, not knowing, instead, it would cost him his soul. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 03 - March 1999
  • The memento was a scale model of the Illustrious , with the green, pink, and white of Fletcher's paint scheme minutely and exactly detailed. —  Aeon One
  • The letters I received during their tour bore witness to a fervent appreciation of the landscape, of which a memento was desired, and Gilbert undertook to paint for his relatives a small picture of Mont Blanc after reaching home; meanwhile, he took several sketches to help him. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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duodecimo ·  souvenir ·  keepsake ·  quarto ·  relic ·  reminder ·  trophy ·  memorial ·  trinket ·  artifacts ·  reminiscence ·  remembrance

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memento:   mementos
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  1. Middle English, commemoration of the living or the dead in the Canon of the Mass, from Latin mementō, imperative of meminisse, to remember; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French mémento, a reminder, from Latin memento, remember, 2d person singular imperative of meminisse, remember; a redupl. perfect, from √ men, think: see mind. It should be noted that memento is not connected with memory, remember, etc.
 

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/məˈmɛntoʊ/
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