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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Spanish
Origin: grande, from Latin grandis; GRAND1

grandee

 noun
     
gran‧dee [countable]
1 a politician of the highest social class who has a lot of influence
2 a Spanish or Portuguese nobleman of the highest rank, in the past
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