mathom

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Mathom: From the Old English for a "treasure" - a trinket or piece of bric-a-brac. A precious item saved and used in as a gift, "mathom" was revived as a term by J R R Tolkien in 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."