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Etymology
From Middle English pikepurse, pykeporse, equivalent to pick + purse.
Noun
pickpurse (plural pickpurses)
- (obsolete) Someone who steals purses, or money from purses.
1548 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough, quoted in Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Cambridge University Press, published 1884, page 71:Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.
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