purse string

1. 1.

   a drawstring used to close the mouth of a purse

   Broaderdrawstring

   Part ofpurse

Questions about purse string

What does purse string mean?

purse string means "a drawstring used to close the mouth of a purse".

Is purse string a common word?

purse string 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.