On 18 October 2016 at 11:21, Nityanand Misra <nmisra@gmail.com> wrote:


A similar use of the term eve occurs in Indian (maybe South Asian?) English in sports. Since my childhood (1980s), I have noted that newspapers in India often refer to Indian women's team in team sports as Indian eves. I doubt if this usage is common outside India/South Asia. A few recent examples: 



Here is an article in The Hindu from 2003 which uses the word eve in its headline in the sense of a woman. 

Eve who dons villain's garb
http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/05/29/stories/2003052900970200.htm