OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8572

keepsake

/ˈkiːp.seɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
recuerdo
An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.
And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, a…
My little keepsake—only a brooch—lay on the table at her bedside, with her prayer-book, and the miniature portrait of her father which she takes with her wherever she goes.
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