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noun, feminine

bourse

/buʁs/

noun, feminine/buʁs/plural: bourses

coin purse; a purseful of money; by extension, any sum of money available to be paid; financial grant; bourse, stock exchange; the scrotum

Les testicules [...] sont suspendus au-dessous du bassin dans une espèce de bourse ou de scrotum [...]The testicles … are hanging below the pelvis in a sort of purse or scrotum …

Synonyms: porte-monnaie, scrotum, testicules, couilles

Inherited from Old French borse, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide”).