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noun
- stock exchange
- A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged. A bourse usually has no competitive exhibits of stamps or covers. Almost all public stamp exhibitions include a dealer bourse, though many bourses are held without a corresponding exhibition.
Etymology: From borse (French: French, bourse)Most likely from a man Van der Burse, outside whose house in w:Bruges, Bruges traders met. Perhaps from the Latin bursa meaning bag.
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