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purse
1. Usually, a bag that a woman, or girl, carries within which small personal day-to-day belongings are placed; such as, keys, a wallet, a date book, make-up, pens, etc.
2. A sum of money collected as a gift or offered as a prize; especially, the total sum of money offered in prizes: "He entered the race hoping to win the purse of over $50,000."
3. An amount of money which is available for spending: "Congress overestimated the size of the public purse that would be available for spending."
4. Etymology: from Old English pursa, "little bag made of leather"; from Medieval Latin bursa, "purse"; from Late Latin, a variant of byrsa, "animal hide"; from Greek byrsa, "hide (skin), leather".
2. A sum of money collected as a gift or offered as a prize; especially, the total sum of money offered in prizes: "He entered the race hoping to win the purse of over $50,000."
3. An amount of money which is available for spending: "Congress overestimated the size of the public purse that would be available for spending."
4. Etymology: from Old English pursa, "little bag made of leather"; from Medieval Latin bursa, "purse"; from Late Latin, a variant of byrsa, "animal hide"; from Greek byrsa, "hide (skin), leather".
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“purse”
(Greek > Latin: bag, sac, saclike; purse)
(Greek: pouch, purse)
(Latin: from fuscus, a small rush basket; then, a purse, public purse, public revenue)
(Latin: the pouch that holds the testes; a purse; probably a variant of scortum, "a skin, hide"; or of scrautum, "a leather bag for holding arrows"; akin to scrupus, "a sharp stone")