Meaning of purvoe | Babel Free

Definitions

A Hindu clerk.

India, obsolete

Examples

“[…] not one-third of the work was done under the direction of the Garden Purvoe and Head Malley only, […]”

“[…] 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 […]”

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