Purse
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A purse is a small bag that may refer to:
- Coin purse, in British English, currency notes, credit card, and other ID cards
- Handbag, in American English, as a modern article of fashion as per H J Cave's Modern interpretation
- Money bag
- Wallet
Purse may also refer to:
- Purse (horse racing), the total amount of money paid out to the owners of horses racing at a particular track over a given period
- Purse (naval warfare), a monetary reward paid out to the crew of a ship for capturing an enemy vessel
- Prize money, or "purse money", any type of monetary award given as a prize
- Purse bid, in Boxing the aggregate prize money
- Purse (surname), a surname
- Purse State Park, a state park in Charles County, Maryland
- Privy Purse, money in the past British monarchy raised from the income of the Crown Estate lands and holdings
- La Bourse ("purse" in French), a short story by French novelist Honoré de Balzac
See also [edit]
- All pages beginning with "Purse"
- All pages with titles containing "Purse"
- Purser (disambiguation)
- Parse, in computing and linguistics
- Peirce (disambiguation)
- Perse (disambiguation)
- Percy (disambiguation)
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