Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1720, 1865, 1933
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MEMORANDUM, n. Sc. usages:
¶1. An epitaph, a memorial inscription on a gravestone.Edb. 1720 A. Pennecuik Helicon 80:
The Laird of the Ground . . . Put up a Stain with this Memorandum.
‡2. A memento, a souvenir, a keepsake (Bnff.12 c.1930; Abd., Per. 1962). Obs. in Eng.Sc. 1865 C. Graham Mystifications 26:
He excused himself, saying it [snuff-box] was a keepsake from a deceased . . . friend. She said . . . that very circumstance made her the more desirous to obtain it; it would be a memorandum of them both.Abd.14 1933:
An old woman once knitted me a pair of socks “for a memorandum”.
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