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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a heirloom" is not correct; it should be "an heirloom." You can use it when referring to a valuable object that has been passed down through generations in a family.
Example: "The necklace she wore at the wedding was an heirloom from her grandmother."
Alternatives: "a family treasure" or "a cherished possession."
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The doll has a heirloom aspect to it".
And as I pointed out in my previous post, because of technological churn, today's Apple Watch is not a heirloom or durable investment.
In 2015, the co-founders launched Foodstirs, an organic baking brand line that uses ethically and sustainably-sourced ingredients including Equal Exchange and Fair Trade chocolate and cocoa, Biodynamic sugar, and a heirloom wheat flour.
For example, she recently lost a ring, a heirloom from her grandmother.
For the Bottle Room, he's developed a fresh and seasonal approach with a menu that might have a lobster and scallop mousse raviolo on one day and a heirloom tomato salad on another.
Chef Sven Meade will join former Shutters chefs Jeff Jackson and Beau MacMillian in the One Pico kitchen to prepare a menu featuring a heirloom tomato and watermelon salad with chilled crab and piperade sorbet; roasted Chilean sea bass with black bean sauce; braised beef short ribs with farmers market vegetables and a red wine reduction; and for dessert, a warm chocolate pudding cake.
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But how does an apple become an antique and a tomato an heirloom?
"I don't think a gown is really an heirloom like a ring or a piece of furniture.
Everyone has at least one piece of nice jewelry: an engagement ring, an heirloom or an impulse buy.
It's a precious, deeply personal object, an heirloom and a teller of stories.
It's solid, an heirloom in a jewel of a setting.
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