Meanings (ES + gloss)
bolsa • cigarra • monedero
A small bag for carrying money.
bolsa
A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
Phrases
Privy PurseSutton Hoo purse-lidbeggar's pursebelt pursechange pursecoin pursecommon pursecut one's cloth to suit one's pursecut-pursecutpursedevil's pursedispurseempty as a pauper's pursefinger pursegaming pursehold the purse stringsjail purseking's purselighten someone's purselong purseloosen the purse stringsmake a silk purse of a sow's earman pursemanpursemermaid's pursemursepick-pursepickpursepower of the purseprison pursepublic pursepurse crabpurse netpurse puppypurse seinepurse snatcherpurse snatchingpurse stringpurse-bearerpurse-pride
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fruncir
To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, https://archive.org/details/landofcockayne00seraiala The serving Sister pu…
1916, Leonid Andreyev, "An Original" in The Little Angel and Other Stories, translated by W. H. Lowe, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 85, https://archive.org/details/littleangelother00a…