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单词 purse club
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purse club
purse club n. British (now historical) (in the 18th and early 19th centuries) an association existing for the mutual aid of its members, who pay regular subscriptions to insure against future need; a friendly society; a guild.
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1790 J. Woodforde Diary 25 May (1927) III. 192 The Purse-Club..came to my House this Morning with Cockades in their Hats.
1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 176 The guilds, or purse-clubs, of the different companies of tradesmen are not modern inventions, but of Syriac origin.
1999 R. Price Brit. Society, 1680–1880 vii. 256 The friendly and benefit societies, the eighteenth-century purse clubs and other convivial, social and even moral reforming societies that dotted the urban landscape after about 1700.
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