souvenir

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An object you keep or give to remember a place or event.

   She bought a small souvenir to remember her trip to Paris.

2. 2
   verb

   To take something as a souvenir, especially without permission.

   The soldiers souvenired badges and coins during the war.

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir (literally “memory”). Compare memento.

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