Lexicographical Neighbors of Nabobish
Literary usage of Nabobish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fortnightly Review (1865)
"These, it is true, were ridiculed as upstart, nabobish, and so forth; but they
stood for what they were—conscious, perhaps, that they had contributed to the ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"... his love of display a passion, his airs nabobish, his residence palatial, his
retinue an army, his repasts sumptuous, the family jewels astonishing, ..."
3. Irene the Missionary by John William De Forest (1879)
"Well, it is ather nabobish. But there are a good many people mder my big roof,
and a good deal of hard work goes >n here. Hallo ! here I aui waiting on the ..."
4. The Confessions of a Collector by William Carew Hazlitt (1897)
"... but while they do not disdain petty traffic, their profits chiefly arise from
transactions, where there is a nabobish margin of £1500 or £2000. ..."
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