nabobess

Wu Ying -- nabobess sentenced to death for defrauding

I copied this as just part of an article and thought it could be of value in American justice. 2010

He married the nabobess after all, and she loved him well enough to make it her business to reform him.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

We got through our usual talk about Margaret and the nabobess, and then he struck out a new line.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

Is there a nabobess on earth half as happy as the two foolish little girls about whom I have been writing, though married to such poor devils as you and Fitzgerald?

The History of Emily Montague 1769

I love to see beauty adorned; and two thousand pounds, added to what you have given her, will set her on a footing in this respect with a nabobess.

The History of Emily Montague 1769

Is there a nabobess on earth half as happy as the two foolish little girls about whom I have been writing, though married to such poor devils as you and Fitzgerald?

The History of Emily Montague Frances Brooke 1756

Condemning the ostentatious new wealth of Anglo-Indian ‘nabobs’, and the women who travel to India to marry them, Sophia vows repeatedly ‘never to marry in Indostan’: ‘I will not violate to be a nabobess.’

Maya Jasanoff · So Much for Staying Single: 18th-Century Calcutta · LRB 20 March 2008 Maya Jasanoff 2019