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[gran-dee] Origin

gran·dee

[gran-dee]
noun
a man of high social position or eminence, especially a Spanish or Portuguese nobleman.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Spanish, Portuguese grande, with ending assimilated to -ee

gran·dee·ship, noun
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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grandee
1598, from Sp. grande "nobleman of the first rank," lit. an adj., "great," from L. grandis "big, great."
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