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Rfv-sense: A grandee; a self-important or arrogant person.
The word may well be used to mean "grandee" whatever "grandee" is; what I wonder about is whether the word is used to mean "a self-important or arrogant person". If such a use is not attested, then the gloss "a self-important or arrogant person" has to go, IHMO.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 82 In every Society of Men, there will be some Bashawes, who presume that there are many Rules of Law, from which they should be exempted.
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. iii. 41 The young men..looked up to this insolent bashaw with timid respect.
