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bourse

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bourse  (brs)
n.
A stock exchange, especially one in a continental European city.
[French, purse, bourse, from Late Latin bursa, bag; see bursa.]
Bourse [bʊəs]
n
(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Stock Exchange) a stock exchange of continental Europe, esp Paris
[from French, literally: purse, from Medieval Latin bursa, ultimately from Greek: leather]
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Noun1.bourseBourse - the stock exchange in Paris          
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bourse [ˈbʊərs] n → bourse f


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There were friends who seemed to be always coming and going across the Channel, on errands about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eighths.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
Already Dantes had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders, who supplied the whole coast for nearly two hundred leagues in extent, he had asked himself what power might not that man attain who should give the impulse of his will to all these contrary and diverging minds.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
= various French noble families; a bouder = silent; Jacques Lafitte = French financier (1767-1844) who supported the 1830 July Revolution; Bourse = stock exchange}
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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