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Wordplay......this word escapes me.

Quick.....I was thinking of the word that is used to describe the convention floor or coin show floor. Boursque? Borsque? What is it? Its driving me crazy!! I know someone here knows this. Please help. lol

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've also heard it called: "A pit of vipers." :)

  • TCoinsTCoins Posts: 566 ✭✭

    LOL thanks! I guess I was trying to put a "Q" in it.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think it originated in France or Europe so a "q" might make sense.

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    FWIW

    bourse (n.)
    1590s, earlier burse (1550s) "meeting place of merchants," from French bourse "meeting place of merchants," literally "purse," from Old French borse "money bag, purse" (12c.), from Medieval Latin bursa "a bag" (see purse (n.)). The modern sense of "stock exchange for merchants" is by 1845, from the name of the Paris stock exchange. The term was said to have originated because in 13c. Bruges the sign of a purse (or perhaps three purses), hung on the front of the house where merchants met. Compare bursar.

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/bourse

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