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Definitions of “nabobery”
The behaviour of a nabob (generally disparaging).
“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.”
A building frequented by nabobs or characteristic of a nabob.
“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].”