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bashaw
/bəˈʃɔː/
noun 3name 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
together
BASHAW + NOUN
drew
PREP.
notwithstanding
Definitions
noun
1
A pasha.
Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa’s palace in Cairo […].
The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace, where he intended to die […].
2
A grandee.
3
A very large siluroid fish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.
name
1
A surname.
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Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa’s palace in Cairo […].
Wiktionary02
The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace, where he intended to die […].
Wiktionary03
he fancies himself in company with beautiful women; he dreams that he is an emperor, or a bashaw, and that the world is at his nod.
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