souvenir
/ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/ verb C2- To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
He/she/it souvenirs · Past souvenired · Past participle souvenired · -ing form souveniring
Verb forms
- Base form
- souvenir
- He/she/it
- souvenirs
- Past
- souvenired
- Past participle
- souvenired
- -ing form
- souveniring
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Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance.
She bought a small souvenir guitar to remember this amazing night.
In the early 1800s, visitors to Lyme Regis, a small seaside town on the south coast of England, could buy an unusual souvenir from a table outside a carpenter's home: a stone snail, a curled shell or, with luck, a piece of bone far older than anyone could imagine.
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