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| purse [ purss ] |
noun (plural purs·es) |
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1. woman's bag for carrying everyday belongings: a bag that a woman or girl carries small personal day-to-day belongings in, such as keys, a wallet, a datebook, and pens
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2. U.K.
Same as change purse
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3. prize money: a sum of money collected as a gift or offered as a prize, especially the total sum of money offered in prizes
  with a purse of over $20,000
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4. available funds: an amount of money available to spend
The legislators overestimated the size of the public purse.
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transitive verb (past and past participle pursed, present participle purs·ing, 3rd person present singular purs·es) |
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draw lips together at sides: to draw the lips together at the sides so that they wrinkle and form a circle, usually when deep in thought or to express disapproval
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| [13th century. Alteration of late Latin bursa< Greek, "hide, leather"] |
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you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear used to emphasize the impossibility of making something of superior quality from inferior materials or beginnings
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