Meanings
plural purvoes · alternative parvoe · alternative purvo
- IndiaobsoleteA 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 21 more example
[…] 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
Origin
Related to Prabhu.
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