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English
Noun
souvenance (uncountable)
- Alternative form of sovenance
1928, Helmar Gustaf Emanuel Eneborg, Swedish Year-book, page 274:(Souvenance of a Cruise on Northern Seas.) Edinburgh 1910.
2022 May 25, Arnold Bennett, The Complete Clayhanger Family Novels: Clayhanger + Hilda Lessways + These Twain + The Roll Call, DigiCat:[…] he abandoned himself afresh to indulgence in the souvenance of the great critical scene of the morning. Yes, he had done marvels; and fate was astoundingly kind to him also. But there was one aspect of the affair that intrigued and puzzled him, and weakened his self-satisfaction […]
Old French
Etymology
souvenant + -ance, from the verb souvenir.
Noun
souvenance oblique singular, f (oblique plural souvenances, nominative singular souvenance, nominative plural souvenances)
- memory
- 1288, C'est Martine Toriel, S. Brice, A. Tournai
- Pour souvenance des coses
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