Europe shop

plural Europe shops

1. IndiahistoricalA shop selling European goods in an upcountry station.

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

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

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   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.

   1850, Fanny Parkes Parlby, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, page 21