purvoe
English edit
Etymology edit
Related to Prabhu.
Noun edit
purvoe (plural purvoes)
- (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 […]