(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."
Souvenir
Definition:
(n.) That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4.16pm BST Pro-Russian militia members in Slavyansk are obligingly taking part in souvenir photo sessions with appreciative locals (note: not all the locals are appreciative).
(2) A bumper 16-page souvenir pullout will mark the end of its 30 years in print before it becomes the first national newspaper in the UK to go online only .
(3) BBC staff have taken so many souvenirs, Television Centre rooms left empty, says Victoria Coren.
(4) Team GB has a motto, which has adorned the back of thousands of souvenir shirts at the park and beyond, "Better never stops".
(5) It shows Fuleco, this World Cup's mascot, which never really caught on, being carried by security guards at the Fifa souvenir store.
(6) The advent of the railway age and the concept of tourism for the masses led to a boom in cheaper – and sometimes tackier – souvenirs.
(7) "It's not the case, as it once was, of rogue traders so much as organised crime, although of course we still get the tourists and holidaymakers trying to bring in souvenirs they've bought that they shouldn't have."
(8) The bestseller at the eclectic L'Oeuf at no 9 is its own South Pigalle range – branded sweatshirts, caps, kids' toys and bags – perfect souvenirs to let everyone know you have discovered SoPi.
(9) The Express cartoonist Carl Giles, then a war cartoonist, was given a Luger as a souvenir by the Commandant of Belsen after its liberation because the man was a huge fan of his cartoons.
(10) That skull was buried in 1960 in the courtyard of Cromwell's old college, Sidney Sussex at Cambridge, in an unmarked spot to dissuade ghoulish souvenir hunters.
(11) A comparison of the television and radio listings of that week 35 years ago with those of diamond jubilee week in 2012 shows that, even though the Radio Times published its own "souvenir issue", coverage of the event occupied significantly less broadcast time in 1977.
(12) Cleber Araújo, 36, was minding his souvenir store.
(13) It may not do so until it hears a right-to-life case or some other human interest story, however many visitors buy its souvenir mousemats or teddy bears wearing the court's logo.
(14) It has gone from a place of memory to a place of souvenirs.
(15) It should be packed now.” The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog | Jon Henley Read more Nicole Stael, who sells postcards, snow globes and souvenir plates, said that in the 40 years she had owned her gift shop business had not been so bad.
(16) Independent prints souvenir pullout as it moves to online only Read more There are two reasons for a widely shared sense of regret at the Indy’s fate .
(17) Now the white cross on a black background is ubiquitous, fluttering outside county hall in Truro and printed on everything from souvenir boxes of fudge to pasty packaging and car bumper stickers.
(18) Another avalanche of adulation is about to asphyxiate us; with glossy supplements on “The Greatest Reign”, exhibitions in royal palaces selling souvenir albums, and Douglas Hurd’s gushing biography, Elizabeth II: The Steadfast .
(19) • 2814 North 16 Street, barriocafe.com CULINARY HEROES FnB Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Jill Richards Photography Among the Native American souvenir stores of Scottsdale old town, is the excellent FnB, a truly forward-thinking, showcase for the state’s native produce in veg-centric dishes: salad of persimmons with hazelnut, kohlrabi, dill and goat’s cheese.
(20) He continued to live off his notoriety, posing for photographs with tourists in exchange for money, selling souvenir T-shirts that commemorated his escapes, scrabbling for crumbs from the media table and charging tourists £40 for a barbecue at his house.