Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female nabob: the wife of a nabob.
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- noun A female
nabob
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wu Ying -- nabobess sentenced to death for defrauding
I copied this as just part of an article and thought it could be of value in American justice.
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He married the nabobess after all, and she loved him well enough to make it her business to reform him.
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We got through our usual talk about Margaret and the nabobess, and then he struck out a new line.
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Is there a nabobess on earth half as happy as the two foolish little girls about whom I have been writing, though married to such poor devils as you and Fitzgerald?
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I love to see beauty adorned; and two thousand pounds, added to what you have given her, will set her on a footing in this respect with a nabobess.
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Is there a nabobess on earth half as happy as the two foolish little girls about whom I have been writing, though married to such poor devils as you and Fitzgerald?
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