Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the East Indies, a bag or purse to carry or measure valuables; hence, a certain quantity of diamonds or other valuables.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun India A
purse orbag in which to carry or measurediamonds , etc.
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Examples
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'A brain addacked Ron bud I dink he's all righd - and Herbione's unconscious, bud we cou'. d feel a bulse - '
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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'I am a bid of a dogtor,' said Darco; 'led me veel your bulse.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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This is an unreasonable mode of disturbing our tranquillity, and should be corrected; let me then comfort myself with the large treasure of Johnson's conversation which I have preserved for my own enjoyment and that of the world, and let me exhibit what I have upon each occasion, whether more or less, whether a bulse [1054], or only a few sparks of a diamond.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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In the same ratio, the camels which composed their train were fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty; the size of their oriental pearls was distended till they almost got to the egg of the ostrich: but as a bulse of diamonds sounded well for a Nabobess, the exact quantity contained in a bulse was increased only in the same proportion with the rest of the eastern importation.
Substance and Shadow; or, the Fisherman's Daughter of Brighton Anonymous 1812
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Pray, Clarence, look at her, entangled in her bale of gold muslin, and conscious of her bulse of diamonds!
Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Pray, Clarence, look at her, entangled in her bale of gold muslin, and conscious of her bulse of diamonds!
Belinda 1801
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Johnson's conversation which I have preserved for my own enjoyment and that of the world, and let me exhibit what I have upon each occasion, whether more or less, whether a bulse [1054], or only a few sparks of a diamond.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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a hardness! an upward bend of erection! and which, together with it bottom dependence, the inestimable bulse of ladies jewels, formed a grand showout of goods indeed!
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) John Cleland 1749
qms commented on the word bulse
The sites that take celebrity pulse
Compete to make voyeurs convulse
By plying the fools
With gossipy jewels,
But big lovely lies are a bulse.
April 17, 2017