souvenance

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English

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Noun

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souvenance (uncountable)

  1. 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

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Etymology

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souvenant +‎ -ance, from the verb souvenir.

Noun

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souvenance oblique singularf (oblique plural souvenances, nominative singular souvenance, nominative plural souvenances)

  1. memory
    • 1288, C'est Martine Toriel, S. Brice, A. Tournai
      Pour souvenance des coses

Descendants

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  • English: sovenance (borrowed, obsolete)