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- noun Plural form of
shroff .
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Examples
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Through the town, past the tall clock-tower whose flashing light showed our path last night; past the banks and the haunts of the money-changers – "shroffs" with fat, yellow, hook-nosed faces, clad in crisp white buttoned with gold, and with great circles of thin gold wire in their ears and black-and-gold head-dresses on their smooth-shaven crowns.
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The local _shroffs_ -- the native money-lenders -- would give him no more credit when they knew that he was going away.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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The Company's agents wanted not only native employees in their office -- 'dubashes' and 'shroffs' and clerks and interpreters and porters and peons, but they also wanted wholesale buyers of the cloth and other articles that they imported from England for sale, and also merchants who could supply them with large quantities of the Indian wares that the Company exported to
The Story of Madras Glyn Barlow
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No more _shroffs_; no more betting, or I come down on you like a ton of coals for my eight hundred.
Captain Desmond, V.C. Maud Diver 1906
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The big foreign banks in all the large Japanese cities do employ Chinese shroffs, because these men are most expert in handling foreign money and because they usually have a large acquaintance all along the Chinese coast among the clients of the banks.
The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 1888
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The favorite instance, which is generally cited by those who do not like the Japanese, is that all the big banks in Japan employ Chinese shroffs or cashiers, who handle all the money, as Japanese cashiers cannot be trusted.
The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 1888
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The most singular exhibitions in these cities are the several shroffs [8] (money-changers, or bankers), dispersed in every public bazaar, or line of shops.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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These shroffs transact remittances to any part of India by hoondies, [10] which are equivalent to our bills of exchange, and on which the usual demand is two and a half per cent at ninety days, if required for any distant station.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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Sa'adat the Jew, Shaykh of the shroffs, and wilt see him sitting on a mattress, with a cushion behind him and two coffers, one for gold and one for silver, before him, while around him stand his
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And poisonous to all such ancestral inspirations are the rascally devices of shroffs and money-changers.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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