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sou·ve·nir  audio  (sv-nîr, sv-nîr) KEY 

NOUN:
A token of remembrance; a memento.

ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Old French, to recall, memory, from Latin subvenre, to come to mind : sub-, sub- + venre, to come; see gw- in Indo-European roots


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