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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Memoir Mem"oir, or pl. Memoirs Mem"oirs, n. [F. m['e]moire, m., memorandum, fr. m['e]moire, f., memory, L. memoria. See Memory.] 1. A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2. 2. A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness. 3. An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A person's memoirs are a written account of the people who they have known and events that they remember. In his memoirs, De Gaulle wrote that he had come to London determined to save the French nation. N-PLURAL: usu with poss