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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
heirloom/ˈeəluːm/

▶noun a valuable object that has belonged to a family for several generations.

– origin ME: from heir + loom1 (which formerly had the senses ‘tool, heirloom’).

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