/ˈbɜː(ɹ)s/
OriginBorrowed from Middle French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare French bourse (“purse, fund”).
- historicalA 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.
- obsoleteA stock exchange; a bourse.
- obsoleteA kind of bazaar.
- A surname from Old French.
Formsburses(plural) · Burses(plural)