Purse
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.
Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
A specific sum of money
In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
To put into a purse.
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
To steal purses; to rob.
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Purse Quotations
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George Washington
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Victor Hugo
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
Dennis Weaver
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller
A car for every purse and purpose.
Alfred P. Sloan
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern
Purse Translations
purse in Dutch is beurs, portemonnaie, geldbuidel
purse in French is sacoche
purse in German is Geldbeutel
purse in Italian is borsa
purse in Latin is pera, sacculus, follis
purse in Portuguese is bolsa
purse in Spanish is colecta, monedero, portamonedas, bolsillo
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