Both Uses of
reminiscence
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- The music was a reminiscence of tom-toms heard at circus fortune-telling tents or at the Minnesota State Fair, but the whole company pounded and puffed and whined in a sing-song, and looked rapturous.†
Chpt 6 *
- Carol read enviously in the admirable Minnesota chronicles called "Old Rail Fence Corners" the reminiscence of Mrs. Mahlon Black, who settled in Stillwater in 1848: "There was nothing to parade over in those days.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
something remembered from the past; or the act of remembering it