Noun: burse
| Singular | burse |
| Plural | burses |
Sample Sentences
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Roche stepped forward with a leather burse, announcing that he would pay for both of us. [1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter IX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:]
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Try a burse instead – sort of a bag, sort of a purse, inspired by the cases that hold the corporal cloth used in mass, and designed to be carried by men. [2021 January 22, The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like burse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare French bourse (“purse, fund”). See: Latin Nouns '
bursa', Ancient Greek Nouns '
βύρσα', French Nouns '
bourse'.
Verbs referencing "burse"
Spanish Nouns
bolsa, Ukrainian Nouns
бурса.