burse
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of burse
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A purse.
“Roche stepped forward with a leather burse, announcing that he would pay for both of us.”
“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.”
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noun
-
(historical)A purse.
“Roche stepped forward with a leather burse, announcing that he would pay for both of us.”
“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.”
- A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies.
- An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.
- (obsolete)A stock exchange; a bourse.
- (obsolete)A kind of bazaar.
name
- A surname from Old French.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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”).
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31 playable · top: REBUS (7 pts)
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