burse
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare French bourse (“purse, fund”).
Noun
burse (plural burses)
- (now chiefly historical) A purse.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer, ch. 9:
- Roche stepped forward with a leather burse, announcing that he would pay for both of us.
- 2021, The Guardian, 22 January:
- Try a burse instead – sort of a bag, sort of a purse, inspired by the cases that hold the corporal cloth used in mass, and designed to be carried by men.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer, ch. 9:
- A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies.
- (ecclesiastical) An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.
- (obsolete) A stock exchange; a bourse.
- (obsolete) A kind of bazaar.
References
- “burse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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