"change purse" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1919, Hildegard G. Frey, chapter 18, in The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery, New York: A. L. Burt, page 198",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1921, Almira Bailey, Vignettes of San Francisco, The San Francisco Journal, “Bags or Sacks,” p. 55,\nIn 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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Italo Calvino, “Marcovaldo at the supermarket”, in William Weaver, transl., Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the City, New York: Harcourt Brace, pages 84–85",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May 10, Leah McLaren, “Portrait of a lady: The delicate art of capturing the Queen”, in Maclean’s",
          "text": "[…] as any Commonwealth native knows just by sifting through her change purse, the Queen is the most pictured living person in history.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small purse or pouch designed for carrying coins."
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          "purse"
        ],
        [
          "pouch",
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          "coin"
        ]
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        "(chiefly Canada, US) A small purse or pouch designed for carrying coins."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "coin purse"
        }
      ],
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        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "change purse"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1919, Hildegard G. Frey, chapter 18, in The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery, New York: A. L. Burt, page 198",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1921, Almira Bailey, Vignettes of San Francisco, The San Francisco Journal, “Bags or Sacks,” p. 55,\nIn 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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Italo Calvino, “Marcovaldo at the supermarket”, in William Weaver, transl., Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the City, New York: Harcourt Brace, pages 84–85",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May 10, Leah McLaren, “Portrait of a lady: The delicate art of capturing the Queen”, in Maclean’s",
          "text": "[…] as any Commonwealth native knows just by sifting through her change purse, the Queen is the most pictured living person in history.",
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        "A small purse or pouch designed for carrying coins."
      ],
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        "(chiefly Canada, US) A small purse or pouch designed for carrying coins."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "coin purse"
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