(n.) A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(2) When she is bickering with Bleeker about the conception, and it looks as though he is going to have the last word by telling her that he has kept her knickers as a memento, she, without missing a beat, says, "I still have your virginity."
(3) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.
(4) And on a sudden impulse, I stowed this little stolen memento of the time I saw the hawks in my inside jacket pocket and went home.
(5) She left no mark behind; there are no photographs or mementoes of her brief life.
(6) It also offers a memento of, and a comment on, the more instantly lovable work finished decades before – of the rich and longstanding relationship of a master of still life with kitchen pots and pans.
(7) In beard and dark shirt, Mohamed Ahmed Nur – described more than once as mayor of the world's most dangerous city – sits at a desk full of flags, mementos and trophies.
(8) That is why this memory of the manuscripts that do not exist any more should serve as memento for future generations.
(9) Three more from Muriel Spark Memento Mori (1959); The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960); The Girls of Slender Means (1961).
(10) But, significantly, the show will not include recent works such as the critically panned skull paintings he showed at the Wallace Collection in London in 2009 – described by the Guardian's art critic, Adrian Searle, as " a memento mori for a reputation ".
(11) The wall behind her is lined with mementoes from her time as first lady – an honorary plaque from the Liberian national football team, a signed photograph of her with Hillary Clinton and a framed photo of the Taylors with former French president Jacques Chirac.
(12) A 2007 New York Times story recounted how Arredondo took a pickup truck around the country, carrying a flag-draped coffin and photos and mementos of Alexander, including a football and his Winnie the Pooh toy.
(13) We analyzed the experts' conclusions regarding legal mementos and expert reports, wherein medical liability (4 cases) and repair of dental injury (2 cases) were put into question.
(14) They will doubtless arrive to examine her grisly family mementoes, but that will only be a small step towards any form of justice.
(15) We give him a fragment of a smashed-up hard drive, a memento of the Guardian’s tangles with GCHQ: a year ago this weekend, senior editors destroyed computers used to store Snowden’s documents while GCHQ representatives watched .
(16) Wangari Maathai's office in fuming, downtown Nairobi is full of citations and mementos, but there is one special photograph.
(17) "Clearly, someone thought it was better to keep it as a memento.
(18) His duties probably included chasing off those who came with hammers (which could apparently be hired locally) to chip away pieces of the stones as mementoes.
(19) It's the sort of covetable memento that says "I was there" just as much as a crumpled 1966 World Cup final ticket or recurrent lysergic acid flashbacks.
(20) But judging from the contents of the office – a clutter of playtexts and mementoes of previous productions – Stephens hasn't been short of work.
Remembrancer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.
(n.) A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time.
Example Sentences:
(1) He also held the post of Queen's remembrancer, created 860 years ago and the oldest judicial position continuously held by a judge.
(2) The remembrancer scours every piece of parliamentary legislation to ensure the corporation's interests remain unaffected.
(3) But the remembrancer also employs six in-house lawyers and has submitted evidence to 16 separate select committees in the past 18 months, including the Treasury's Tax Principles report published last year.
(4) Behind the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons sits the Remembrancer , whose job is to ensure that the interests of the City of London are recognised by the elected members.
(5) Sitting facing the speaker's chair is Paul Double, a City of London official known as the remembrancer.
(6) (A campaign to rescind this privilege – Don’t Forget the Remembrancer – will be launched very soon.)
(7) The Occupy activists have a good deal of fun with the "Remembrancer", a legal official from the corporation who represents the City's interests in the House of Commons and gets to sit behind the speaker's chair – a prime example, according to Occupy, of the overly close embrace of politics and big business.
(8) I was talking with Nick Harkaway [author of Tigerman ] in his back garden a couple of years ago and he started explaining how the guilds of the City work.” In particular, Harkaway told him about the unelected offices of the Lord Mayor and the City Remembrancer, who can be mistaken for figureheads but, in fact, have extensive powers.