bourse
[boo rs]
- a stock exchange, especially the stock exchange of certain European cities.
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Origin of bourse
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Contemporary Examples
Paul Smith filled the Bourse de Commerce with its copper cupola in June for his menswear show.
Once the bluest chip on the São Paulo bourse, worth $35 billion in 2011, OGX is trading at a few cents a share.
Historical Examples
He got "Sunday specials" out of them both, and then went on to the Bourse de Travail.
The HarborErnest Poole
In consequence of his views, he was known on the Bourse as "bear" Moser.
A Zola DictionaryJ. G. Patterson
There was the gossip of the Bourse and the cabinet, the green-room and the stable.
The Fortunes Of GlencoreCharles James Lever
Now, the Cascine is to the world of society what the Bourse is to the world of trade.
The Fortunes Of GlencoreCharles James Lever
The sharks on the Bourse and the sharp men of business are just as dishonest.
The White LieWilliam Le Queux
Bourse
- a stock exchange of continental Europe, esp Paris
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Word Origin
C19: from French, literally: purse, from Medieval Latin bursa, ultimately from Greek: leather
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Word Origin and History for bourse
n.
"stock exchange," 1570s, burse, from Old French borse "money bag, purse" (12c.), from Medieval Latin bursa "a bag" (see purse (n.)). French spelling and modern sense of "exchange for merchants" is first recorded 1845, from the name of the Paris stock exchange. The term originated because in 13c. Bruges the sign of a purse (or perhaps three purses), hung on the front of the house where merchants met.
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