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purse

  [purs] noun, verb, pursed, purs⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
2. a small bag, pouch, or case for carrying money.
3. anything resembling a purse in appearance, use, etc.
4. a sum of money offered as a prize or reward.
5. a sum of money collected as a present or the like.
6. money, resources, or wealth.
–verb (used with object)
7. to contract into folds or wrinkles; pucker: to purse one's lips.
8. to put into a purse.
Origin:
bef. 1100; (n.) ME, OE purs, b. pusa bag (c. ON posi) and ML bursa bag (≪ Gk býrsa hide, leather); (v.) ME pursen to put in a purse, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
purseless, adjective
purselike, adjective
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purse   (pûrs)   
n.  

  1. A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.

  2. A small bag or pouch for carrying money.

  3. Something that resembles a bag or pouch.

  4. Available wealth or resources; money.

  5. A sum of money collected as a present or offered as a prize.

tr.v.   pursed, purs·ing, purs·es
To gather or contract (the lips or brow) into wrinkles or folds; pucker.

[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin bursa; see bursa.]
purse'like' adj.
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Word Origin & History

purse  (n.)
O.E. pursa "little bag made of leather," from M.L. bursa "purse" (cf. O.Fr. borse, 12c., Fr. bourse), from L.L., variant of byrsa "hide," from Gk. byrsa "hide, leather." Change of b- to p- perhaps by infl. of O.E. pusa, O.N. posi "bag." Meaning "woman's handbag" is attested from 1955. Meaning "sum of money collected as a prize in a race, etc.," is frim 1650. The verb, "draw together and wrinkle" (as the strings of a money bag) is first recorded 1604. Purse-strings, fig. for "control of money" is from c.1412. Purse-snatcher first attested 1902 (earlier purse-picker, 1549). The notion of "drawn together by a thong" is also behind purse-net (c.1400).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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