Bashaw's

ba·shaw

[buh-shaw]
noun
2.
a person who is important, imperious, or self-important.

Origin:
1525–35; < Arabic bāshā < Turkish pāshā pasha

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bashaw (bəˈʃɔː) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a rare spelling of pasha
2.  an important or pompous person
 
[C16: from Turkish başa, from bas head, chief]

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Bashaw's is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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bashaw
1530s, earlier Anglicization of pasha.
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