purvoe

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Etymology

Related to Prabhu.

Noun

purvoe (plural purvoes)

  1. (India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk.
    • 1843, Transactions of the Agri-horticultural Society of Western India, page 2:
      [] not one-third of the work was done under the direction of the Garden Purvoe and Head Malley only, []
    • 1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219:
      [] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English []

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