change purse
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Not having enough money in her change-purse to pay for them, she took a roll of bills from a bill-fold in her inner pocket, and, taking five dollars from the roll, returned it to its place of safety in the lining of her coat."
- "1921, Almira Bailey, Vignettes of San Francisco, The San Francisco Journal, “Bags or Sacks,” p. 55, In the East a change purse is scorned by anything masculine, but here all the men carry one, I don’t know why not in the East, nor why in the West."
- "And off went packages and bundles and wallets and bags; they whirled around the cashier’s desk in a clutter, hands digging into pocketbooks seeking change-purses, and fingers rummaging in change-purses for coins, and down below, in a forest of alien legs and hems and overcoats, children no longer held by the hand became lost and started crying."
- "[…] as any Commonwealth native knows just by sifting through her change purse, the Queen is the most pictured living person in history."