heirloom
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As for the tchotchkes, they ran the gamut from tacky souvenir to sentimental heirloom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
We never had a family heirloom type of piece; my mother didn’t pass me down any, my grandmother didn’t have any.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026
At Camden Harbour Inn, pastry chef Gwynthe Frenchette served me a tartlet of heirloom Gravenstein apples from nearby School House Farm, topped by a tidy quenelle of applewood-smoked almond ice cream.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Another fan, Riley Beresford, 25, from Nottingham, has inherited a copy of Sabbath's 1970 single Paranoid as a family heirloom from his grandmother.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025
He rarely says anything other than "Good job, Chantal," but I'm always aware of his eyes on my technique as I drive the Larsen family heirloom.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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Lesson 5
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