Europe shop

English

Noun

Europe shop (plural Europe shops)

1. (India, historical) A shop selling European goods in an upcountry station.
   • 1850, Fanny Parkes Parlby, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, page 21:

     Very excellent furniture was also to be had at the Europe shops, made by native workmen under the superintendence of European cabinet and furniture makers; and furniture of an inferior description in the native bazaars.

   • 1877, Katharine Blanche Guthrie, My Year in an Indian Fort, volume 2, page 93:

     The shops called the Europe shops were kept by Parsis, who sold wines, tinned provisions, groceries, and a thousand miscellaneous articles.

References

• Henry Yule, Arthur Burnell (1903) Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases