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noun
a stock exchange, especially the stock exchange of certain European cities.
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is always a great word to know.
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Word Origin & History
bourse
"stock exchange," 1570s, burse, from O.Fr. borse "money bag, purse" (12c.), from M.L. bursa "a bag" (see purse). Fr. spelling and modern sense of "exchange for merchants" is first recorded 1845, from the name of the Paris stock exchange. The term originated because in 13c.
EXPANDBruges the sign of a purse (or perhaps three purses), hung on the front of the house where merchants met.
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