bashaw
Americannoun
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a rare spelling of pasha
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an important or pompous person
Etymology
Origin of bashaw
1525–35; < Arabic bāshā < Turkish pāshā pasha
Example Sentences
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They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Billy Rose himself, the unco-smart little bashaw of Broadway, called it "trial by newspaper."
From Time Magazine Archive
The sons of the bashaw became alarmed, and entreated me, with clasped hands, to wait till they should report to the bashaw my words and observations.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
Letter from him to his bashaw of Suse respecting English seamen wrecked on the western coast of Africa, 364.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
He could only account for his absence by relating his transformation into a butterfly, of which the bashaw, being blinded to the truth by the glitter of gold, would not believe one word.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
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