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grandee
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synonyms: nabob ???
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Definition:a person of high rank or eminance; a Spanish nobleman of the highest rank
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I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee.
John Knowles. A Separate Peace, p.73 (1959)
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to say the truth, I should have been strongly tempted to laugh as much at them as the king and his grandees did at me.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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a foreign earl or duke might cross the Atlantic with immense wealth and a vast retinue, and then use his European riches to buy friends on a scale that no homegrown citizen could match. No such grandee had yet reached America’s shores. (in regards to "natural born citizen" clause).
Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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This stout young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezukhov, a well-known grandee of Catherine’s time who now lay dying in Moscow.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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ONCE, in the days of old, a certain Grandee passed from his richly dight bed into the realm which Pluto sways. To speak more simply, he died.
Ivan Krylov.The Grandee (Ralston translation, 1869)
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The elders and grandees of the village sat on their own stools brought there by their young sons or slaves.
Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart, p.46 (1958)
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DOL. What is he, general?
FACE. An adalantado,
A grandee, girl. Was not my Dapper here yet?
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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in the swell room of the house, with the busts of Cerretani senators and other grandees of this line looking approvingly down upon me, as they used to look down upon Dante,
Mark Twain. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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