Usually means: Valuable items passed through generations.
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  1. heirlooms: Merriam-Webster
  2. heirlooms: Collins English Dictionary
  3. heirlooms: Vocabulary.com
  4. Heirlooms, heirlooms: Wordnik
  5. heirlooms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. heirlooms: Wiktionary
  7. heirlooms: Dictionary.com
  8. heirlooms: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. heirlooms: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. heirlooms: Encyclopedia

(Note: See heirloom as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (heirloom)

noun:  A valued possession that has been passed down through the generations.
noun:  (horticulture) An old crop variety that has been passed down through generations of farmers by seed saving and cultivation, in contrast to modern cultivars used in large-scale agriculture.
▸ Also see heirloom


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