Meanings
nounsovenaunce (countable and uncountable, plural sovenaunces)
plural sovenaunces · alternative souvenance
- countableobsoleteuncountableremembrance
Of his way he had no sovenaunce.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 8
Origin
- Old Frenchsouvenance
- Englishsovenaunce
Old French souvenance.
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