purse
a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,890 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,711 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) also: bag, handbag, pocketbook she reached into her bag and found a comb
- a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse he made the contribution out of his own pursehe and his wife shared a common purse
- a small bag for carrying money
- a sum of money offered as a prize the purse barely covered the winner's expenses
verb
- contract one's lips into a rounded shape
- gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker also: wrinkle purse ones's lips
purse in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He tightened the strings of his purse.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I popped the gems into my purse, well pleased.
An African Millionaire · Grant Allen · Chapter 2
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Do you mean that you had another person's purse, and that this man took it too?
Plays : First Series · John Galsworthy · Chapter 1
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But it was not a bit of glass after all, but a fine golden florin which must have dropped from somebody's purse.
The Firelight Fairy Book · Henry Beston · Chapter 1
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Poor Timmins trembled as he gazed Upon the stranger's face; For cut purse! robber! all too plain, His eye could therein trace.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1