Definitions

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  • noun rare Plural form of memento.

Etymologies

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The technically "proper" spelling of mementos.

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Examples

  • Here I found what I would call mementoes: snippets of pretty ribbons, jeweled combs, charm bracelets for a very tiny wrist, a pair of bronzed baby shoes, a cigar box full of old pictures, and a hand-painted jewelry box that was also a music box.

    Into the Garden V.C. Andrews® 1999

  • Here I found what I would call mementoes: snippets of pretty ribbons, jeweled combs, charm bracelets for a very tiny wrist, a pair of bronzed baby shoes, a cigar box full of old pictures, and a hand-painted jewelry box that was also a music box.

    Into the Garden V.C. Andrews® 1999

  • Here I found what I would call mementoes: snippets of pretty ribbons, jeweled combs, charm bracelets for a very tiny wrist, a pair of bronzed baby shoes, a cigar box full of old pictures, and a hand-painted jewelry box that was also a music box.

    Into the Garden V.C. Andrews® 1999

  • Here I found what I would call mementoes: snippets of pretty ribbons, jeweled combs, charm bracelets for a very tiny wrist, a pair of bronzed baby shoes, a cigar box full of old pictures, and a hand-painted jewelry box that was also a music box.

    Into the Garden V.C. Andrews® 1999

  • After Diana's death, even the queen and Prince Philip allowed themselves to be photographed half-buried in the tacky flowers and mementoes piled up outside the gates of Buckingham Palace; and in another newspaper photograph of 1997, the queen meets the Spice Girls, whose cleavage is more prominent than the bouquet the queen is carrying.

    Portraying an Enigma Paul Levy 2011

  • There are stark moments and tender ones, too, echoed in a set cluttered with steel hoops – these could be gravestones or a shrine decorated with mementoes – which John McGrath's direction holds together impressively in the more fragmented second half.

    Loves Steals Us from Loneliness - review Elisabeth Mahoney 2010

  • These letters are, above all, mementoes of moments.

    Staving Off Oblivion Abigail Deutsch 2011

  • Suddenly Upham's mementoes started working their way South, carried by Union soldiers on the march and blockade-runners on the prowl.

    Just Like the Real Thing Joseph Sternberg 2011

  • Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.

    Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' 2011

  • Thankfully, Dick Cheney a master torturer can take his whips and water boards home with him as mementoes of his reign of terror.

    And the Winner Is … - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

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