burse
Americannoun
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a pouch or case for some special purpose.
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(in Scotland)
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a fund to provide allowances for students.
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an allowance so provided.
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Ecclesiastical. a case or receptacle for a corporal.
noun
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RC Church a flat case used at Mass as a container for the corporal
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a fund providing allowances for students
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the allowance provided
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Etymology
Origin of burse
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French < Late Latin bursa purse; see bursa
Example Sentences
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The priest replaced the purificator, paten, and pall upon the chalice; once more pinched the two large folds of the veil together, and laid upon it the burse containing the corporal.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
The "burse" is a square, stiff pocket of silk over cardboard, in which the Altar-linen is carried to and from the Altar.
From The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness by Regester, J. A. (Jacob Asbury)
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 Zola, Émile
After his conversion many persons demanded that he should make restitution to the burse fund, which, according to them, he had employed against the intentions of the founders.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 by Various
When not in use both corporal and pall are carried in a square silken pocket called the burse.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
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