It is a thief, sort of a pickpocket. In Medieval times, men and women carried their money in a purse on their belts. A cut purse would brush up against them, cut the purse and take the money out of the slit.
There is no such character as "cut-purse" in the Rostand play.
You can make the compound words cutout, cutup, cut-purse, from cut.
They would be KILLED
1 to 3 % of the fighters purse
A cut-purse is a thief. The modern day name would be a pick-pocket. They were called cut-purses because in the days when people carried their money in a bag (a purse) hung off their belts, the thieves would steell them by cutting the cord attaching the purse to the belt. Theatres were goo places for cut-purses to operate because they were crowded (people stood rather then sat) and peoples attention was focused on the stage/actors rather than their purses.
The purse
It is this lady's purse.
It used to be based on the winnner receiving 18% of the total purse, then a sliding scale down from there for the remainder of the field that made the cut. Might still be that way, not sure in these days of multi-million dollar purses!
because it's a purse, you can also call it a wallet........
There are many different ways to go about doing this. One way is to glue individual wrappers together and form a purse shape. Another way is to cut apart the wrappers and weave them together to form a purse. When I was younger I made purses from wrappers taped together, but these were not very sturdy and did not look as neat as the above two options.
purse = 'eke'eke
You can use cut off jean scraps on lots of different sewing projects:Coin purse/card holder (link below)Denim doggy bed (link below)Purse/tote (link below)Travel sewing kit (link below)Quilt (link below)Apron (link below)PillowWall hanging for storage (link below)