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Europe shop en · NOUN
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(India, historical) A 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: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:
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