An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard / Now then, you have grown up to be this hard / Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred / You're the souvenir of sadness
To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
"Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."
Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir (literally “memory”). Compare memento.
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