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Privy purse   /prˈɪvi pərs/   Listen
Privy purse

noun
1.
Allowance for a monarch's personal expenses.





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... state at Weimar, conducted Berendis into the service of the Duke, in which he first became military counsellor, entering afterward the service of the Dowager Duchess as Financial Councillor and Keeper of the Privy Purse. He died on the 26th of October, 1783, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. II • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke


Words linked to "Privy purse" :   allowance


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