Meaning of nabobery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The behaviour of a nabob (generally disparaging).
   uncountable, usually
2. A building frequented by nabobs or characteristic of a nabob.
   uncountable, usually
3. Very wealthy people collectively (generally disparaging).
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“2001, Archie Baron, An Indian Affair, London: Channel 4 Books, Chapter 7, p. 169, Respecting Indian ways and mastering Indian politics, intrigues and all, may have⟳ been the key to his success and the Company’s survival in the subcontinent. But to many in Britain this reeked of Oriental despotism and ‘un-British’ nabobery.”

“Our hero’s regiment was shortly afterwards ordered to India, where he escaped all the horrors of that pestilential clime, and may, for what we know⟳ to the contrary, be seen daily, about three o’clock, enjoying a tiffin at the great nabobery in Hanover Square [i.e. the Oriental Club in London].”

“the gilded dome of Sezincote in the Cotswolds, that most enchanted of the naboberies”

“[…] old Jack though deserted by princes, though censured by an ungrateful world, and persecuted from age to age by Critic and Commentator, and though never rich enough to hire⟳ one literary prostitute, shall find⟳ a Voluntary defender; and that too at a time when the whole body of the Nabobry demands and requires defence;”

“I refer⟳ to the talentless daughter of some rich man—the youthful feminine flower of Berlin Nabobry—who holds herself wonderfully gifted.”

“It was considered very chic in the 1870’s to own⟳ a vineyard and a private winery. Many of these survive⟳, converted into châteaux by today’s successors to the nabobery.”

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