Europe shop
English
Noun
Europe shop (plural Europe shops)
- (India, historical) A shop selling European goods in an upcountry station.
- 1850, Fanny Parkes Parlby, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque (page 21)
- 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.
- 1877, Katharine Blanche Guthrie, My Year in an Indian Fort (volume 2, page 93)
- The shops called the Europe shops were kept by Parsis, who sold wines, tinned provisions, groceries, and a thousand miscellaneous articles.
- 1850, Fanny Parkes Parlby, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque (page 21)
References
- 1903, Henry Yule, Arthur Burnell, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases