What is "nabobs"

Usage examples of "nabobs".

He's been trying to convince the Committee and the Nabobs for months that it was time to send a Rap Sheet to Grotum.

Very rich nabobs returning to England with their fortunes could usually buy their way to an Irish peerage and men by sheer persistence (and a judicious marriage into an aristocratic but impoverished family who needed money sufficiently to overcome any distaste for wealth obtained through 'trade') finally become tolerated--though never accepted--by Society.

Very rich nabobs returning to England with their fortunes could usually buy their way to an Irish peerage and men by sheer persistence (and a judicious marriage into an aristocratic but impoverished family who needed money sufficiently to overcome any distaste for wealth obtained through 'trade') finally become tolerated—though never accepted—by Society.

He had learned their ways and got far better prices for their sought-after goods than the rich nabobs who cooled themselves in the lavish palaces they had erected in India.

Notwitstanding we are outlaws, warring against the nabobs of the world.