[ˈmɛmwɑː], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge
(e.g: in 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband)

- an essay on a learned subject
(e.g: an important memoir on Carboniferous crustacea)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century (denoting a memorandum or record): from French mémoire (masculine), a special use of mémoire (feminine) ‘memory’