bourse

[boo rs]

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noun

a stock exchange, especially the stock exchange of certain European cities.

Origin of bourse

1835–45; < French: literally, purse; see bursa

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Related Words for bourse

exchange, board, Amex, NASDAQ, bourse, OTC

Examples from the Web for bourse

Contemporary Examples of bourse

Paul Smith filled the Bourse de Commerce with its copper cupola in June for his menswear show.
Paris’s Secret Fashion Week Haunts
Liza Foreman
July 8, 2014
Once the bluest chip on the São Paulo bourse, worth $35 billion in 2011, OGX is trading at a few cents a share.
The Rise And Fall Of Brazilian Billionaire Eike Batista
Mac Margolis
November 9, 2013

Historical Examples of bourse

He got "Sunday specials" out of them both, and then went on to the Bourse de Travail.
The Harbor
Ernest Poole
In consequence of his views, he was known on the Bourse as "bear" Moser.
A Zola Dictionary
J. G. Patterson
There was the gossip of the Bourse and the cabinet, the green-room and the stable.
The Fortunes Of Glencore
Charles James Lever
Now, the Cascine is to the world of society what the Bourse is to the world of trade.
The Fortunes Of Glencore
Charles James Lever
The sharks on the Bourse and the sharp men of business are just as dishonest.
The White Lie
William Le Queux

British Dictionary definitions for bourse

Bourse

noun

a stock exchange of continental Europe, esp Paris

Word Origin for Bourse

C19: from French, literally: purse, from Medieval Latin bursa, ultimately from Greek: leather

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Word Origin and History for bourse

"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.