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memoir noun. M16.
[French memoire (masc.) specific use of fem. noun = MEMORY.]
A note, a memorandum, a record, now spec. an official one. M16.
sing. & in pl. A record of events or history from personal knowledge or from special sources of information; an autobiographical or (occas.) biographical record. M17.
J. Fowles Gosse was..immortalized half a century later in his son Edmund's famous and exquisite memoir. E. Pawel His memoirs, though..based on notes made at the time, were never submitted for publication.
An essay or dissertation on a learned subject specially studied by the writer. In pl. also, (the record of) the proceedings or transactions of a learned society. L17.
memoirist noun a writer of memoirs or of a memoir M18.