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boors (BOORZ) (noun)
Plural of boor, an insensitive or rude person: "I'm exhausted", Jill exclaimed, "I have never met so many boors in one place in my life."
bourse (BOORS) (noun)
A specialized sale; such as, numismatic or philatelic, typically at a convention where the items would be displayed on a table: The collector set up his booth at the bourse which is held two times per year.
At the end of the bourse, Harvey and Jared met for drinks. Jared told his friend, Harvey that earlier he had to talk for hours with two boors who monopolized all his time.
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1. A stock exchange; especially, one that is located in a continental European city.
2. Etymology: from Old French borse, "money bag, purse" (12th century), from Medieval Latin bursa, "a bag".
2. Etymology: from Old French borse, "money bag, purse" (12th century), from Medieval Latin bursa, "a bag".
The French spelling and modern sense of "exchange for merchants" was first recorded in 1845, from the name of the Paris stock exchange.
The term bourse originated because in 13th century Bruges was the sign of a purse (or perhaps three purses) which was hung on the front of a house where merchants met to do business with each other.
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