Ephemera is printed odds and ends never meant to be kept. Collect ephemera.
Tickets, handbills and menus tell historians more than the books of the same year do. Ephemera survives by accident, which is why so little of it is left.
1nounephemeraPrinted odds and ends never meant to be kept.
“A shoebox of ephemera dated the whole house.”
ephemera is a collection.
Greek ephemeros, lasting a day, from epi, on, plus hemera, a day.
Ancient Greek
ἐφήμερᾰ
English, today
ephemera
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερᾰ, neuter plural form of ἐφήμερος.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA