(n.) Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her first name means "love" in Japanese, and is a keepsake from her earlier days as a professional dominatrix.
(2) It is a keepsake that protects the family and proves you belong to Timbuktu.
(3) The woman declined an offer to post the jugs back to her afterwards, and the constable now has one "at home as a little keepsake because I thought it was such a nice gesture".
(4) Regular patrons are encouraged to demonstrate their gratitude by donating keepsakes.
(5) Pressed about the pistol, Nightingale said the weapon had been given to him in 2007 as a keepsake by Iraqis he had been training in Baghdad.
(6) In contrast to the US tradition that views stray balls as highly prized keepsakes, here in Cuba they are in short supply even inside the giant stadium of the country’s biggest team.
(7) But I’m glad to see everybody is safe, at least.” Later Obama said how he had talked to a young widow whose daughter had been trying to rescue from her bedroom keepsakes that remind her of her father.
(8) Dickinson’s heirloom keepsakes will help keep ideas and experiences alive for generations to come.
(9) Wherever you are in Britain today, save your passport as a keepsake: it's likely your offspring will end up in an altogether different state.
(10) Malek Jandali came back from his most recent trip inside Syria with a curious keepsake – a jar of soil.
(11) Ivory is highly desirable in China, Japan and Thailand, used for highly elaborate decorative ornaments down to small keepsakes.
(12) Some keepsakes are staying with the family, including a copy of King's book, Stride Toward Freedom, with a handwritten note on the inner cover: "To my secretary Maude Ballou."
Nostalgic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.
Example Sentences:
(1) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(2) Then there were American imperialists, Turkish nostalgics for the Ottoman days and Iranians ambitious for Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.
(3) For a minute or two they get all nostalgic for last year’s showstopper high points.
(4) Yet ice cream does do something funny to a lot of us: it makes us nostalgic and happy and, if you take your cues from Bridget Jones, it helps us recover from heartbreak.
(5) Asked if he felt nostalgic, Obama replied: “Of course.” With those two words and his last presidential words immortalised on the web, he was out.
(6) "[They] actually made me feel nostalgic for Billy Crystal, something I didn't think was possible," he wrote.
(7) Hey, I say, when I look at this record it makes me feel nostalgic for my youth, and I didn't even write the songs, so God knows what it does for you.
(8) and a mother showing off her own placenta almost make one nostalgic for the days of annual round-robin newsletters.
(9) Even the HMC , mouthpiece of the independent sector, is reported to have spoken out against a "knee-jerk return to the nostalgic golden age of O-levels".
(10) Reuters Photograph: Reuters “I think one of the strengths of nostalgia is that even if they have not had a good childhood, most people have at least one nostalgic memory that they cherish and that they can use repeatedly.
(11) In one experiment, subjects in whom nostalgia had been induced were asked to set up a room for a meeting – those in a nostalgic frame of mind consistently set up the chairs closer than those in the control.
(12) To those critics who will accuse him of romanticism and nostalgia, his defiant reply is the first page of the introduction: things were better in the past, and it's not nostalgic to say so.
(13) "Union Jacks is all about bringing back nostalgic British classics using the best of artisanal ingredients.
(14) The line from New Labour nostalgics that “we won three elections” misses the point for millions.
(15) Adepitan has just made a powerful programme about polio in Nigeria, and it has left him both angry and nostalgic.
(16) (For Wilson's character, who romanticises that era, it's a dream come true – but the Parisians of the 20s are themselves nostalgic for the 1890s.
(17) In another experiment, those in nostalgic moods were asked to write essays, which were compared in a blind judging process with those of peers who’d had no induced feelings of nostalgia.
(18) When Ikea closes in the near future (as, please God, it will), will I be tweeting my nostalgic feelings about its contribution to extending allen keys and misery worldwide?
(19) On the left, some people seem nostalgic for the 1970s; on the right, eyes mist over at the mention of the 1990s.
(20) Nor does last month’s Singapore race fill the British driver with a nostalgic glow.