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UK
/ˈeəluːm/
]
[ US /ˈɛɹˌɫum/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɹˌɫum/ ]
NOUN
- (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance
- something that has been in a family for generations
How To Use heirloom In A Sentence
- The group that had been holding service behind the nursing home got the buildings and some church funds, while the ultraconservatives got some cash and church heirlooms.
- Although not hugely valuable, they were both treasured family heirlooms.
- The brooch is a family heirloom which came down to her from her great - grandmother .
- His house had been burgled, windows smashed, doors broken and family heirlooms stolen.
- British strawberries are at their best in September and our heirloom tomatoes are still great in October. Times, Sunday Times
- There are many good reasons to incorporate more heirloom varieties into your gardening.
- Their affair is going nowhere until he asks her to restore a family heirloom that may contain the key to a centuries-old murder mystery.
- He later discovered two travelling clocks and a signet ring, family heirlooms worth £700 and £200 in cash were missing.
- I plant heirloom vegetables in my garden because I'm partial to the complex flavors of such things as black tomatoes, purple carrots and candy-striped beets.
- Pile lush heirloom tomatoes in a footed bowl for a jolt of hot late-summer color on your outdoor table.