Lexicographical Neighbors of Nabobery
Literary usage of Nabobery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of by John Timbs (1868)
">s the region of calico shirts, returned writers, and guinea-pigs grown into
bores, such ig the nabobery into which Harley-street, Wimpole-street, ..."
2. The History of the Squares of London: Topographical & Historical by Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1907)
"... while a writer in the New Monthly Magazine, about 1837, waxed highly satirical
over what he was pleased to term the " nabobery." " Enter it," he wrote, ..."
3. On the History and Use of the Suffixes -ery (-ry), -age, and -ment in English by Fredrik Gadde (1910)
"... 16-; fairy 'enchantment, magic' 1300—1533, nabobery 'essential qualities of
a nabob' 1852, ropery 'knavery, trickery' (1536 — 1871), ..."
4. Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of by John Timbs (1868)
">s the region of calico shirts, returned writers, and guinea-pigs grown into
bores, such ig the nabobery into which Harley-street, Wimpole-street, ..."
5. The History of the Squares of London: Topographical & Historical by Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1907)
"... while a writer in the New Monthly Magazine, about 1837, waxed highly satirical
over what he was pleased to term the " nabobery." " Enter it," he wrote, ..."
6. On the History and Use of the Suffixes -ery (-ry), -age, and -ment in English by Fredrik Gadde (1910)
"... 16-; fairy 'enchantment, magic' 1300—1533, nabobery 'essential qualities of
a nabob' 1852, ropery 'knavery, trickery' (1536 — 1871), ..."
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