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shroff

[shrof]
–noun
1. (in India) a banker or money-changer.
2. (in the Far East, esp. China) a native expert employed to test coins and separate the base from the genuine.
–verb (used with object)
3. to test (coins) in order to separate the base from the genuine.

Origin:
1610–20; earlier sharoffe < Pg xarrafo, prob. < Gujarati śaraf < Ar ṣayrāfī moneychanger
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