How to pronounce“keepsake”in English
history of my family she has just a few treasured
keepsakes from before the wall like this photo of her with her father joffy was just eight and her brother only four when they had to leave
their home in Mar they stayed with a family in the French Alps pretending to be Catholic her older siblings joined the resistance
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Definitions of “keepsake”
An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.
“And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.”
Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings.
“He had brought the last “Keepsake,” the gorgeous watered-silk publication which marked modern progress at that time; and he considered himself very fortunate that he could be the first to look over it with her, dwelling on the ladies and gentlemen with shiny copper-plate cheeks and copper-plate smiles, and pointing to comic verses as capital and sentimental stories as interesting.”
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