memento
Example Sentences
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On Sunday, thousands of people had gathered outside the charred buildings in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district to lay flowers and leave mementos and messages such as “rest in peace” and “Hong Kong be strong.”
Not for the solvers he speaks to, who use their puzzle routines as calming influences or mementos of relationships.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Apatow includes memorabilia—marked-up scripts, magazine interviews—from virtually everything he’s worked on, and the reader’s pleasure comes from poring over cherished mementos from such a prolific, occasionally manic, life as a collaborative artist.
“Finally, about a year ago, I opened a box in the attic of mementos from my children, their artwork, etc., and was just going through it and encountered his policy.”
From MarketWatch
It is a chronicle, an accounting, a memento mori.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
