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- noun Plural form of
nabobess .
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Altogether it is very pretty; but as there are few nabobs and nabobesses in this country, and as the middling and common people are not much richer than Job when he had lost every thing but his patience, the proprietors are on the point of being ruined, unless the project takes place that is talked of.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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