Purse

A purse is a small bag that may refer to:

• Coin purse, small pouch made for carrying coins
• In British English, currency notes, credit cards, and other ID cards
• Handbag, in American English
• 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
• Prize money, "purse", or "purse money", a monetary reward paid out to the crew of a ship for capturing an enemy vessel
• 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

• All pages with titles beginning with Purse
• All pages with titles containing Purse
• Purser (disambiguation)
• Parse, in computing and linguistics
• Peirce
• Perse (disambiguation)
• Percy (disambiguation)