souvenir

plural souvenirs · alternative obsolete souvenier

1. An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

   Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard / Now then, you have grown up to be this hard / Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred / You're the souvenir of sadness

   2005, “Souvenir”, performed by Korn

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   The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.

   2005, Steven Church, Guinness Book of Me, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 138

   Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia

present singular third person souvenirs · participle present souveniring · participle past souvenired · past souvenired · alternative obsolete souvenier

1. transitiveTo take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.

   The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.

   2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 84

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   "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."

   1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57