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How to pronounce heirloom in English?

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Type Words
Type of belongings, holding, property
Type Words
Type of inheritance, heritage

Examples of heirloom

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A Christmas heirloom shared space in a ditch with broken glass and jagged nails.
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So don't think that family-heirloom vase on the top shelf of a bookcase is safe.
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Salad greens, heirloom and Italian vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, annual vines.
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Heirloom plants are pollinated by birds, wind, insects or other natural methods.
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Channel your inner Queen Victoria with this intricate, heirloom-worthy bracelet.
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The arctic char with heirloom beans comes next, a rustic pairing fit for winter.
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Some select heirloom plants due to an interest in traditional organic gardening.
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The Cox's Orange Pippin, Traverso says, is a wonderful juicy heirloom for sauce.
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Tibetans in particular give much importance to heirloom beads such as dzi beads.
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More examples
  • (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
  • Heirloom was a series about antiques which was produced by Anglia Television and aired on the ITV network from 1986 until about 1992 or 1993, the programme was hosted by John Bly.
  • The Heirloom is a 2005 Taiwan ghost movie. It concerns a house in which an entire family committed mass suicide and a young man returning to claim it as his inheritance.
  • A valued possession that has been passed down through the generations; A crop variety that has been passed down through generations of farmers by seed saving and cultivation
  • (Heirlooms) Personal chattels which, by special custom, pass to the heir of an intestate with the real estate.
  • A personal possession that usually has a sentimental value which exceeds its monetary value.
  • An item with special monetary or sentimental value, which is passed down from generation to generation.
  • Plant varieties that have remained relatively unchanged in a particular region for several or more generations. They are always open-pollinated.