Commemorabilia
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution. plural, plural-only
"By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country."
Example
More examples"By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country."
Etymology
Morphologically, borrowed from Latin commemorābilia, the nominative neuter plural of Latin commemorābilis; semantically, a blend of commemorate + memorabilia.
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