"chaprasi" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi चपरासी (caprāsī).",
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        {
          "ref": "1924, E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 13",
          "text": "A servant in scarlet interrupted him; he was the chuprassy of the Civil Surgeon, and he handed Aziz a note.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 22, in Burmese Days",
          "text": "Two clerks who had witnessed the scene, and a chaprassi, were sent along to Mr Macgregor's office to corroborate the story. They lied in perfect unison.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 78",
          "text": "Liveried chaprasis were bringing in wreaths to be placed on Mattoo's body, from the Governor General, Prime Minister, cabinet ministers, heads of industrial houses.",
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        "An official of some kind, especially an important attendant or messenger in the household of an Indian landowner."
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        "(India) An official of some kind, especially an important attendant or messenger in the household of an Indian landowner."
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          "word": "chaprassi"
        },
        {
          "word": "chaprassie"
        },
        {
          "word": "chuprassi"
        },
        {
          "word": "chuprassie"
        },
        {
          "word": "chuprassy"
        }
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        "India"
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  "word": "chaprasi"
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          "ref": "1924, E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 13",
          "text": "A servant in scarlet interrupted him; he was the chuprassy of the Civil Surgeon, and he handed Aziz a note.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 22, in Burmese Days",
          "text": "Two clerks who had witnessed the scene, and a chaprassi, were sent along to Mr Macgregor's office to corroborate the story. They lied in perfect unison.",
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    {
      "word": "chaprassi"
    },
    {
      "word": "chaprassie"
    },
    {
      "word": "chuprassi"
    },
    {
      "word": "chuprassie"
    },
    {
      "word": "chuprassy"
    }
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