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Definition of Purse

1. Verb. Contract one's lips into a rounded shape.

2. Noun. A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women). "She reached into her bag and found a comb"

3. Verb. Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker. "Purse ones's lips"

4. Noun. A sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse. "He and his wife shared a common purse"

5. Noun. A small bag for carrying money.

6. Noun. A sum of money offered as a prize. "The purse barely covered the winner's expenses"

Definition of Purse

1. n. A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.

2. v. t. To put into a purse.

3. v. i. To steal purses; to rob.

Definition of Purse

1. Noun. A small bag for carrying money. ¹

2. Noun. (American English) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) ¹

3. Noun. A quantity of money given for a particular purpose. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Purse

1. to pucker [v PURSED, PURSING, PURSES] - See also: pucker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purse

purpurogenous purpuroxanthin purpy purr purre purred purree purrer purrers purres

purring purringly purrings purrs purs purse (current term) purse-proud purse-string operation purse seine purse seines

purse string pursed purseful pursefuls purselane purselanes purseless purselike purser purser rigged and parish damned

Literary usage of Purse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1898)
"He stooped quickly, and picked up — a netted purse of green silk! ... Yusuf slipped the purse quickly into the bosom of his tunic. ..."

2. The Hand-book of Needlework by Lambert (F.), Miss Lambert (1842)
"Those worked in rows of the length of the purse are the most easily made. ... These two stripes are to be repeated until the purse is of a sufficient width. ..."

3. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"But he was not content with that, but he then takes up the purse ... holding it so long till the tongs burnt through the purse, and then he shook the money ..."

4. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"And, though the days of the purse are long since past, its remembrance even yet lost. In the language of vulgar contumely, the opprobrious epithet of ..."

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