Other forms: keepsakes
A keepsake is a small object kept in memory of somebody. A keepsake from her mother, treasure the keepsake, keep it as a keepsake.
Its value is entirely in the association, so a keepsake can be a ticket stub or a button and is worth nothing to anybody else. The word says exactly what it is: something kept for the sake of a person. Memento and souvenir are close relatives.
1nounkeepsakeA small object kept in memory of somebody.
“She kept her father's old watch as a keepsake after he died.”
keepsake is an object.
Keep plus sake, from the eighteenth century — something kept for the sake of the giver.
From keep + sake.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA