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keepsake
Part of speech: NounSomething kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver.
Usage examples "keepsake":- It was then and there that a frank, hearty liking and alliance was re- established between Harry Goldthwaite and Barbara, upon an old remembered basis of ten years ago, when he had gone away to school and given her half his marbles for a parting keepsake,-" as he might have done," we told her, " to any other boy." - "We Girls: A Home Story", Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
- When the king's son was awake he put his hand in his bosom, found the keepsake, and knew that the sisters had come to him. - "Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland", Jeremiah Curtin.
- She had grown used to setting the installments on those bills ahead of new hats, and the cameo ring which had been her mother's keepsake was for the sake of memory, not adornment. - "Joan of Arc of the North Woods", Holman Day.