A stock exchange or financial market where securities and commodities are traded, most famously referring to European exchanges.
From Old French 'bourse' meaning 'purse,' derived from Latin 'bursa,' which also came to mean a treasury or place where money is kept and traded.
The term originally referred to a purse (a very physical object), but evolved to mean the place where money flows—the Bourse in Paris is one of the oldest stock exchanges, showing how a humble word for 'purse' became synonymous with high finance.
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