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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
change purse
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Mr Sammler in the elevator, extracting the Yale key from his change purse.
▪ She slipped me a dollar bill from her change purse.

Usage examples of "change purse".

I found a parking place in front of a store, grabbed a dollar bill from my change purse, dashed into the store, picked up a package of cigarettes and—.

I found a parking place in front of a store, grabbed a dollar bill from my change purse, dashed into the store, picked up a package of cigarettes and-- Well, when I came out my purse was gone--although I didn't miss it until later.

I bought an embroidered change purse that I had no use for, because those people were good to us.

Passport, wallet, a change purse, keys, and assorted notes and messages in the rear pockets.

Combination wallet and change purse, lipstick, very small hair brush, mirror, stub of eyebrow pencil.

Demeter sighed and rummaged through a change purse full of breath mints, jiffy pots, and wildflower seeds, finally pulling out a coin.

She went to the Greyhound counter instead and bought a ticket, taking her money from a bejeweled change purse and counting it out painstakingly slowly.

Her fingers found the change purse, with its unusual contents, and a great blinding light seemed to burst in her brain.

He let out a cry of kittenish fury as the change purse tore open, exploding in a rain of bright coins.

While the guy made it up and shoved it on a plate with three measly potato chips and a sliver of pickle you could barely see, I searched through my wallet, opened my change purse, counted out silver, got to $1.

Clover pulled a small change purse out of her vest pocket and shook the money into her hand.