A historical Anglo-Indian term for a boutique or small shop, used in British India contexts. The word is an anglicised form of the Portuguese 'boutique' or its cognates as filtered through Indian trade usage. Now entirely obsolete.
The traveller stopped at a butteca near the bazaar to buy provisions.
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(India, obsolete) A boutique; a small shop.
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