An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc, meet for business at certain hours; especially, the Stock Exchange of Paris.

Origin: F. Bourse purse, exchange, LL. Bursa, fr. Gr. Skin, hide, of which a purse was usually made. Cf. Purse, Burse.

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