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nabob

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a person of high wealth or status

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As a practical matter, the clause fueled the strong suspicion aroused by a too-small House— and by the very eminence of the Philadelphia draftsmen themselves— that the proposed Constitution was at heart an aristocratic scheme favoring nabobs and grandees, despite its remarkable array of populist provisions.

Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain't a man in that town that's got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane—the awfulest old gray-headed nabob in the State.

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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