| 词汇 | change-purse |
| 释义 | change purse noun[ C ] USuk /ˈtʃeɪndʒ ˌpɜːs/ us /ˈtʃeɪndʒ ˌpɝːs/(UKpurse) a small container for money, usually used by a woman（尤指女性使用的）零钱包，小钱包 Coprid/ iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Containers for carrying personal possessions attaché case baggage billfold bindle briefcase excess baggage grip hand luggage handbag hatbox haversack pannier pocketbook sack saddlebag satchel schoolbag shopping bag sling sponge bag All she would need would be her little case for tickets, and her change purse, and her evening cloak had pockets. She was fumbling in her change purse as he turned back to shut the door. The New Yorker continued to set stiff in his chair, one hand on his watch and one on the pocket where his change purse was that he'd tried to pay his share of the taxicabs out of. Watch a Frenchman count his coppers, or an Englishman that carries his in a change purse and talks about pounds but really thinks in shillings. Examples of change pursechange purse The cover photograph, which can not be reproduced in a family newspaper, is ingenious -- a bright-pink changepurse, unclasped, viewed from above. From Plain Dealer Before the epiphany, she kept that piece of paper in her purse for months, even when she would change purses. From CNN Because of events during the talk the interviewer reached for her changepurse to find and offer another quarter. From Project Gutenberg She was fumbling in her changepurse as he turned back to shut the door. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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