Bashaw
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Noun



  1. A pasha.
    • 1809: he fancies himself in company with beautiful women; he dreams that he is an emperor, or a bashaw, and that the world is at his nod. — James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco (London 1809, p. 79)
  2. A grandee; a self-important or arrogant person.
 
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