a leather pouch or purse, usually covered with fur or hair, worn hanging from the front of the belt in the dress costume of Scottish Highlanders
Origin of sporran
Gaelic sporansporran
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sporran
noun
A leather or fur pouch worn at the front of the kilt in the traditional dress of men of the Scottish Highlands.
Origin of sporran
Scottish Gaelic sporan from Middle Irish sparán possibly from Late Latin bursa bag ; see bursa .
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Noun
(plural sporrans)
Origin
From Scottish Gaelic sporan (“purse"), from Old Irish sboran, from Late Latin bursa (“purse").
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