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    [Noun]  | "mem*oir" | \ ˈmem-ˌwär \


    1: an official note or report : memorandum

    2: a narrative composed from personal experience

    3: autobiography —usually used in plural


    Origin: 1571 ;

     Middle French memoire, from memoire memory, from Latin memoria;

    [Noun]  | "memoir" 


    1: a history of a person's life;


      * e.g., " ... the former senator has a lucrative contract to write his memoirs, in which he will supposedly set the record straight "



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     [ "memoir" ]

    1: A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge.

      * e.g.,  ... "In 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband." 

     [ "memoir moment" ]

    1: When a tragic or insightful life experience causes a writer to think "I could write about this," and subsequently "That's awful/narcissistic. Why would I think that?" It seems that the whole thought process should invalidate the experience's potential as writing fodder but can instead make for a nice modernist moment in which the author's role is explicitly recognized.

      * e.g.,  ... MOTHER: "Maurice died." 

     [ "personal memoir" ]

    1: A writing about an important event of ones life, a highlight

      * e.g.,  ... My humanities teacher made me write a personal memoir for homework!! 

     [ "Memoirs of a negro man" ]

    1: A book that doesn't exist. Based on the idea that blacks don't/shouldn't know how to write.

      * e.g.,  ... Yeah, I've got the original Constitution on my bookshelf, right next to the Memoirs of a negro man. 

     [ "Memoirs of a Straight-sha" ]

    1: When you have a romantic night watching Asian movies with a girl and fucking her pussy good

      * e.g.,  ... Me and that girl went back to her place and watched Memoirs of a Straight-sha 

     [ "Memoirs of a negro man" ]

    1: An expression of great frustration or anger, typically brought about by one of African descent.

      * e.g.,  ... Memoirs of a negro man! Could this black guy drive any slower? 


     [ "Memoirs of a negro man" ]

    2: Cf. Memoirs of a Mexican man

     [ "I'll put it in my memoirs." ]

    1: A snarky expression to mock someone for saying something uninteresting or that adds zero value to the conversation.

      * e.g.,  ... Flo: I ran 10 miles yesterday! 

     [ "Vagina Memoir" ]

    1: When a guy goes into graphic details of an ex female partner depicting her vagina to his friends.

      * e.g.,  ... Guy: So I was with this girl last night and we started some freaky shit. Guy2: yo bro I don't need to hear her vagina memoir. 

     [ "memoir" ]

    1: - 한국어 ( Korean )

      * e.g.,  ... Her book is a memoir about living in the country. 


     [ "memoir" ]

    2:  (특히 유명인의) 회고록 (어떤 사람・장소・사건을 잘 아는 사람이 쓴) 전기체험기/회상록

      * e.g.,  ... - 그녀의 책은 한국의 삶을 적은 회고록이다. 


     [ "memoir" ]

    3: - 영어 ( English )


     [ "memoir" ]

    4: A biography or historical account, esp one based on personal knowledge

     [ "memoir" ]

    1: discord’s greatest user

      * e.g.,  ... hey u remind me of {memoir}. 

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