privy purse in English
noun
1
(in the UK) an allowance from the public revenue for the monarch's private expenses.
Breaking pledges given at the time of independence, the government abolished all royal titles and privileges in 1971 and stopped payment of special pensions, called privy purses .
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1. 29 It is a soiled and puckered hem, the golden treasury's privy purse.
2. It is a soiled and puckered hem, the golden treasury's privy purse.