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bashaw
Word definitions for bashaw in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, earlier Englishing of pasha .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bashaw may refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pasha \Pa*sha"\, n. [Turk. p[=a]sh[=a], b[=a]sh[=a]; cf. Per. b[=a]sh[=a], b[=a]dsh[=a]h; perh. a corruption of Per. p[=a]dish[=a]h. Cf. Bashaw , Padishah , Shah .] An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare historical English) A pasha. (16th-19th c.) 2 (context archaic often pejorative by extension English) A grandee. (from 16th c.) 3 A very large siluroid fish ((taxlink Leptops olivaris species noshow=1)) of the Mississippi valley; ...
Usage examples of bashaw.
When I overcame the Bashaw of Nalbrits in Tartaria, the charitable Lady Callamata supplyed my necessities.
The Bashaw of Buda was soon to feel the effect of this re-enforcement.
The campaign, at first favorable to the Turks, was inconclusive, and towards winter the Bashaw retired to Buda.
Smith was bought by Bashaw Bogall, who forwarded him by way of Adrianople to Constantinople, to be a slave to his mistress.
So chained by the necks in gangs of twenty they marched to the city of Constantine, where Smith was delivered over to the mistress of the Bashaw, the young Charatza Tragabigzanda.
If all had gone on as Smith believed the kind lady intended, he might have been a great Bashaw and a mighty man in the Ottoman Empire, and we might never have heard of Pocahontas.
The Bashaw used to come to visit his slave there, and beat, spurn, and revile him.
He did not create Pocahontas, as perhaps he may have created the beautiful mistress of Bashaw Bogall, but he invested her with a romantic interest which forms a lovely halo about his own memory.
Calil Bashaw, who still maintained a secret correspondence with the Byzantine court.
Should any unwarrantably pert young Leviathan coming that way, presume to draw confidentially close to one of the ladies, with what prodigious fury the Bashaw assails him, and chases him away!
According to the promise of their appearance, they were selected for the royal schools of Boursa, Pera, and Adrianople, intrusted to the care of the bashaws, or dispersed in the houses of the Anatolian peasantry.
His splendid achievements, the bashaws whom he encountered, the armies that he discomfited, and the three thousand Turks who were slain by his single hand, must be weighed in the scales of suspicious criticism.
The Bashaw of Buda was soon to feel the effect of this re-enforcement.
He did not create Pocahontas, as perhaps he may have created the beautiful mistress of Bashaw Bogall, but he invested her with a romantic interest which forms a lovely halo about his own memory.
In order to make the time pass pleasantly, and exactly in accordance with the tales of chivalry which Smith had read, the Turkish Bashaw in the fortress sent out his challenge: "That to delight the ladies, who did long to see some courtlike pastime, the Lord TuBashaw did defy any captaine that had the command of a company, who durst combat with him for his head.