keepsake

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.

   “My little keepsake—only a brooch—lay on the table at her bedside, with her prayer-book, and the miniature portrait of her father which she takes with her wherever she goes.”

2. isim Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings.

   “[…]it was the Italy that we know from the steel engravings in old keepsakes and annuals, from the vignettes on music-sheets and the drop-curtains at theatres; an Italy that we can never confess to ourselves—in spite of our own changes and of Italy’s—that we have ceased to believe in.”