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- adjective Without a
purse .
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Examples
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Not wanting to take a cab for only 5 blocks, I walked, purseless, to a restaurant.
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Now I will have a dead-set at the purser, who was generally purseless.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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She is nameless, purseless, childless – though a woman, an heiress, and a mother.
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Poor Mrs. Tessier, our landlady -- she was not well acquainted with figures of speech, but she has been the Providence of many of the destitute, and more than one who hears me now can say as I do, that no better or more obliging heart ever beat in a more pitiful bosom towards purseless youth.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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She is nameless, purseless, childless -- though a woman, an heiress, and a mother.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863
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She is nameless, purseless, childless -- though a woman, an heiress, and a mother.
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1858
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I was, purseless, locked out of a running car at 6 a.m.
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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The Luas stops and I leave it ... hopelessly purseless and hopping mad!
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I'm told by my spies that many high school girls today do go purseless, choosing the backpack option instead.
Opening Arguments 2008
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a purseless one: capricious, coquettish, and with all the finer sensibilities of the heart; now in the rackets, now in the sullens; vivid in contradictory resolves; laughing, weeping, without reason, -- though these acts are said to be signs of season.
What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 Various 1914
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