What does purvoe mean?
Purvoe means (India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk..
[…] 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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Purvoe means (India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk..
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[…] not one-third of the work was done under the direction of the Garden Purvoe and Head Malley only, […]
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