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bulse arch.|bʌls|
[ad. Pg. bolsa = Sp. bolsa, It. borsa:—med.L. bursa a purse. Cf. burse.]
A package of diamonds or gold-dust.
1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4499/4 There was brought from India, in the Ship Albemarle..Three Bulses of Diamonds. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 283 Amongst other things, was a bulse of gold dust. 1787Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ode upon Ode Wks. 1812 I. 409 And tweak'd a Bulse of Jewels from the nose Of Dames in India. 1813Milburn Orient. Commerce II. 79 These gems [diamonds] are generally imported..in small parcels called bulses, neatly secured in muslin and sealed by the merchant. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xviii. |