bourse
noun/bʊəs/
/bʊrs/
(from French)- a stock exchange, especially the one in ParisWord Originmid 16th cent. (as burse, the usual form until the mid 19th cent.): from French, literally ‘purse’, via medieval Latin from Greek bursa ‘leather’.
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