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Definition of "shroff" []

  • A money-changer or banker in South Asia. (noun)
  • A cashier at a car park. (noun)

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Use "shroff" in a sentence
  • "Guests came face to face with two mandarins, a wedding bride, a woman with bound feet and her child, a schoolmaster, a shroff (money changer), three soldiers, and a Buddhist priest with a shaved head (fig. 9.7)."
  • "The ape cried, "I am the ape of Abu al-Sa'adat the Jew, the shroff.""
  • "This table is covered with a fine grass mat and surrounded on three sides with benches for the players, while on the fourth side sit the croupier and the banker or shroff."