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PRIVY PURSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does privy purse mean? 

PRIVY PURSE (noun)
  The noun PRIVY PURSE has 1 sense:

1. allowance for a monarch's personal expensesplay

  Familiarity information: PRIVY PURSE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRIVY PURSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Allowance for a monarch's personal expenses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("privy purse" is a kind of...):

allowance (an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period))


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