privy purse

1. 1.

   allowance for a monarch's personal expenses

   Broaderallowance

Questions about privy purse

What does privy purse mean?

privy purse means "allowance for a monarch's personal expenses".

Is privy purse a common word?

privy purse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.