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Bashaw   Listen
noun
Bashaw  n.  
1.
A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
2.
Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
3.
(Zool.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.





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"Bashaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... changing all that; that my father had been bidden to attend a certain desk during stated hours to perform routine work each day; that he had protested, refused, and closed his connection with the journal, after a heated interview with some managerial bashaw. ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... transhipped down the Nile to Alexandria, then the great shipping port for Asia and Europe. By 1722, 60,000 to 70,000 bales of Turkish (Arabian) coffee a year were being received in England, the sale price at Grand Cairo being fixed by the Bashaw, who "valorized" it according to the supply. "Indian" coffee, which was also grown in Arabia, was brought to Bettelfukere (Beit-el-fakih) in the mountains of southwestern Arabia, where English, Dutch, and French factors went to buy it and to transport ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... like travelling with a mighty, magnificent, three-tailed bashaw," observed Nowell to me, laughing. "Now, if you and I had been alone, we should have to rough it by ourselves, with no one to care for ...
— My First Voyage to Southern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston


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