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purvoe

purvoe noun: a Hindu clerk.

Noun

purvoe (plural purvoes)

  1. (India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk.
    • […] not one-third of the work was done under the direction of the Garden Purvoe and Head Malley only, […]1843, Transactions of the Agri-horticultural Society of Western India, page 2
    • […] 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 […]1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219

Forms of purvoe

pluralpurvoes
alternative formparvoe
alternative formpurvo

Origin of purvoe

Related to Prabhu.

Questions about purvoe

What does purvoe mean?
Purvoe means a Hindu clerk.
What part of speech is purvoe?
Purvoe is a noun.
What is the plural of purvoe?
The plural of purvoe is purvoes.

Words near purvoe in the dictionary

  1. purview
  2. purviews
  3. Purvis
  4. Purvises
  5. purvo
  6. purvoe
  7. purvoes
  8. purvos
  9. purvue
  10. purvues
  11. purwanna

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