What does the word bourse mean?

Usage examples for bourse

  1. His whole idea of life was the office, which he arrived at by daybreak, and never left, except to visit the Bourse, till late at night. – That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
  2. What the Bourse is in Paris, Wall Street in New York, and the Exchange in London- that is the " Corner" at Ballarat. – A Boy's Voyage Round the World by The Son of Samuel Smiles
  3. He was intimate with a number of men, more particularly with the roues of the Bourse, men who, since the revolution, have set up the principle that robbery done on a large scale is only a smirch to the reputation,- transferring thus to financial matters the loose principles of love in the eighteenth century. – Juana by Honore de Balzac