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Paris exchange
Answer for the clue "Paris exchange ", 6 letters:
bourse
Alternative clues for the word bourse
Word definitions for bourse in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Bourse is a municipal building in Gothenburg , western Sweden. It is located on the north side of Gustaf Adolf Square . Originally it was designed as a mercantile exchange , with a ballroom , by architect Pehr Johan Ekman in the Neoclassical style . ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bourse \Bourse\, n. [F. bourse purse, exchange, LL. bursa, fr. Gr.? skin, hide, of which a purse was usually made. Cf. Purse , Burse .] An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A stock exchange. 2 (label en philately) A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stock exchange," 1570s, burse , from Old French borse "money bag, purse" (12c.), from Medieval Latin bursa "a bag" (see purse (n.)). French spelling and modern sense of "exchange for merchants" is first recorded 1845, from the name of the Paris stock exchange. ...
Usage examples of bourse.
If bankrupt, he should be condemned, as formerly, to the pillory on the Place de la Bourse, and exposed for two hours, wearing a green cap.
In front of the Bourse, a deaf-mute soccer team carried on conversation in obstreperous silence.
COMEDIE HUMAINE SCENES DE LA VIE PRIVEE SCENES FROM PRIVATE LIFE La Maison du Chat-qui Pelote At the Sign of the Cat and Racket Le Bal de Sceaux The Ball at Sceaux La Bourse The Purse La Vendetta The Vendetta Mme.
Portia was introduced was of a kind much frequented by students and artists of the Quartier Latin, those who were ranged in the category of les petites bourses.
Blackmail, speculation on the Bourse, even the desperate expedient of a supposititious child, all these she tried as means of acquiring a competence.
North Sea, who dreams of unspendable treasure to be found outside the bourse of the big city.
It was in the Flyboat, a tavern off the Warmoesstraat, close enough to the Exchange that merchants regarded it as adjunct, a place to continue business when the gates of the bourse closed.
The people of the bourse could hardly admire enough these bold financiers who had so deftly relieved that candid marquis of his money.
It was said, too, that he gambled at the bourse, in the hope of recouping himself for his losses on the turf, and by way, too, of affecting an air of power and influence, for he allowed it to be supposed that he obtained information direct from members of the Government.
Fortunes may be thrown into the vortex of the bourse, without a trace of them being left.
Dantzig cordial, with which the commercial travelers of the bourse catch their customers.
It is not in gambling at the bourse that I made these ten thousand francs.
Circumstances sometimes work against us, if we operate at the bourse to make up the deficit we lose.
Mutual Credit Society were much above par, and were quoted at 580 francs on that Saturday, when, after the closing of the bourse, the rumor had spread that the cashier, Vincent Favoral, had run off with twelve millions.
Whelm: The chair recognizes Senator Bourse, of the Imperial Democratic Party.