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Meanings of privy purse in English
We have no meanings for "privy purse" in our records yet.
Usage of privy purse in English
1
Its upkeep, however did not come from King's privy purse, but from treasury.
2
Knowing him, he too was totting up the damage to the privy purse.
3
The time of our Dover journey was one of extreme depletion in the privy purse.
4
The privy purse would not run to a maid.
5
This is all a loss to the privy purse.
6
The "imperial" taxes were for the emperor's privy purse, the fiscus.
7
He at the same time promised to allow her a large pension from his privy purse.
8
She was privy purse to the Princess Dowager.-C.
9
His Majesty then drew from his privy purse the necessary funds, and handed them to these gentlemen.
10
Evidently no professor's privy purse would suffice.
11
Sir Alan Reid, keeper of the privy purse, said the palace strove to provide good value for money.
12
Sir Alan Reid, keeper of the privy purse, said the Scottish plans created a complication over future funding.
13
The keeper of the privy purse, which he eventually became, was no longer a part-time job for a flunky.
14
I suggested that money in the nation's treasury was not in the privy purse, where the king most wants it.
15
Whatever he could save by retrenching from the expenditure of the public departments was an addition to his privy purse.
16
Louis XVIII., that man without a heart, was touched; he gave me a hundred thousand francs from his privy purse.
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