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单词 bulse
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bulsen.

/bʌls/
Etymology: < Portuguese bolsa = Spanish bolsa , Italian borsa < medieval Latin bursa a purse. Compare burse n.
archaic.
A package of diamonds or gold-dust.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > package of diamonds
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1708 London Gaz. No. 4499/4 There was brought from India, in the Ship Albemarle..Three Bulses of Diamonds.
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 283 Amongst other things, was a bulse of gold dust.
1787 J. Wolcot Ode upon Ode in Wks. (1812) I. 409 And tweak'd a Bulse of Jewels from the nose Of Dames in India.
1813 W. Milburn Oriental Commerce II. 79 These gems [diamonds] are generally imported..in small parcels called bulses, neatly secured in muslin and sealed by the merchant.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xviii.
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