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Dulse vs Bulse - What's the difference?

dulse | bulse |

As nouns the difference between dulse and bulse

is that dulse is a seaweed of a reddish-brown color (palmaria palmata ) which is sometimes eaten, as in scotland while bulse is (india) a purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.

dulse

English

Alternative forms

* dillisk * dilsk

Noun

(en noun)
  • A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata ) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
  • * 1997 , ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 151:
    • Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse , it makes you even thirstier.’
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, page 90:
    • They worked together on their father's patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; [...] but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation.

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    bulse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (India) A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.
    • (Macaulay)
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date=17 , year=2011 , month=December , first= , last= , author= , coauthors= , title=The East India Company , volume=401 , issue=8764 , page=110 , magazine=The Economist , publisher=The Economist Newspaper Limited , issn=0013-0613 , url= , passage=It also made regular gifts to the Court: "All who could help or hurt at Court," wrote Lord Macaulay, "ministers, mistresses, priests, were kept in good humour by presents of shawls and silks, birds' nests and attar of roses, bulses of diamonds and bags of guineas." }} (Webster 1913)