bolso
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bolso (feminine bolsa, masculine plural bolsi, feminine plural bolse)
- having difficulty breathing (of a horse)
- (figurative) pompous, inconclusive, unsuccessful, ineffectual, vague, vain
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Mirandese edit
Noun edit
bolso m (plural bolsos)
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From bolsa.
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Noun edit
bolso m (plural bolsos, metaphonic)
- pocket
- Este casaco não tem bolsos.
- This coat doesn't have pockets.
- (figuratively) one's finances or acquisitive power
- Na minha idade, um homem deve se preocupar não com o seu corpo mas com o seu bolso.
- At my age, a man needs to worry not about his body but about his pocket.
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From bolsa. Compare English purse and burse.
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Noun edit
bolso m (plural bolsos)
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- bolso de viaje (“duffel bag, overnight bag, travel bag”)
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Further reading edit
- “bolso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014