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What is a grandee?

What is a grandee? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal. [from 1590s]
  2. (by extension) A person of high rank.
  3. The title for a high ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.
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Either way, she is swiftly becoming a grandee of the art establishment, not to say a national treasure.
A mudsill like me trying to push in and help receive an awful grandee like Edward J. Billings?
The chateau de Menda belonged to a grandee of Spain, who was at this time living there with his family.
No sixteenth century Spanish grandee could speak in such terms and Schiller was well aware of the fact.
Lansdowne was a Whig grandee and for decades Bowood in Wiltshire and Lansdowne House in London were headquarters of Whiggism.
However, Caroline Flint, the shadow energy secretary, hit back at the Labour grandee on Thursday.

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