burse

American  

[burs] / bɜrs /

noun

1. a pouch or case for some special purpose.

2. (in Scotland)

   1. a fund to provide allowances for students.

   2. an allowance so provided.

3. Ecclesiastical. a case or receptacle for a corporal.

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burse British  

/ bɜːs /

noun

1. RC Church a flat case used at Mass as a container for the corporal

2. 1. a fund providing allowances for students

   2. the allowance provided

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Etymology

Origin of burse

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French < Late Latin bursa purse; see bursa

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Example Sentences

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burse

Then while the priest slipped a corporal into the burse and laid the latter on the veil, she went on quickly: 'By-the-bye, I forgot! that gadabout Vincent hasn't come.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola

At the altar, Vincent had carried the missal to the right again, and Abbe Mouret had just folded the corporal and slipped it within the burse.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola

He carried across his arm the second white-sleeved kirtle that he had, and his burse was on his girdle.

From The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Robert Hugh Benson

As he was hiding the chalice by gathering together the folds in the veil of cloth of gold matching the chasuble, La Teuse exclaimed: 'Stop, there's no corporal in the burse.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola

Mass had been said not long since, and the chalice covered with the veil and burse was still on the altar.

From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Leslie Moore

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