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plural souvenirs
An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location. quotations examples
The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.
2005, Steven Church, Guinness Book of Me, Simon and Schuster, page 138
third-person singular simple present souvenirs, present participle souveniring, simple past and past participle souvenired
(transitive) To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime. quotations examples
"Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."
1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, page 57
The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.
2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, page 84