mathom

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A precious item saved and used in regifting, from Lord of the Rings: "Anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort
A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac
mathom

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    () From Old English māþum (“treasure”), obsolete after Middle English but revived by J. R. R. Tolkien.