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Turkish province
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bursa
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Wikipedia
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Bursa is a Romanian language business newspaper published in Bucharest , Romania . The paper was started in 1990. It is part of Multimedia Inc and is published by Press Group from Monday to Friday. The paper offers articles about the financial and capital ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1788 as an English word in physiology, shortened from medieval Latin bursa mucosa "mucus pouch," from Medieval Latin bursa "bag, purse," from Late Latin bursa , variant of byrsa "hide," from Greek byrsa "hide, skin, wineskin, drum," which is of unknown ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bursa \Bur"sa\, n.; pl. Burs[ae] . [L. See Burse .] (Anat.) Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.
Usage examples of bursa.
Now, when the village men took silk to market in Bursa, they were free Greeks, in a free Greek city.
For shopping you had to go into Bursa, walking first and then taking the horse-drawn streetcar.
Down in Bursa the Greek troops scrounged for food, caroused, and shot up another mosque.
Every so often these babies appeared, and they always met with tragic ends: they killed themselves, they ran off and became circus performers, they were seen years later in Bursa, begging or prostituting themselves.
They looked, to my grandmother, like devout Muslims from Bursa, except for the color of their garments.
In 1974, instead of reclaiming his roots by visiting Bursa, my father renounced them.
He seated himself behind his desk and folded his hands together on its surface, then looked at Bursa with the perky, enquiring gaze he had found a useful tool for thirty years.
Messala Rufus tried to cast the lots to see which of the patrician prefects of each decury of ten senators would become the first Interrex, Bursa vetoed.
The whole House howled its outrage, Clodius and Milo loudest of all, but Bursa could not be prevailed upon to withdraw his veto.
Curio, Antony, Plancus Bursa, Pompeius Rufus, Decimus Brutus, Poplicola and Sextus Cloelius.
The best speaker of the three was Sallust, who followed the rousing speeches of Bursa and Pompeius Rufus with an even better one.
Plancus Bursa, who had received the nod from Pompey indicating a summons.
The moment Plancus Bursa and Pompeius Rufus are out of office as tribunes of the plebs, we intend to prosecute them for inciting violence.
The charges Plancus Bursa had threatened to bring against Metellus Scipio never eventuated.
A dour and silent man who had recently entered office as a tribune of the plebs, Plancus Bursa spoke up in his passionless way.