[f. as prec. + -SHIP.] a. The jurisdiction or office of a bashaw. b. fig. Dignity or demeanor of a bashaw.
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2252/6. To be paid yearly during his Bassawship.
1701. Grew, Cosmol. Sacra, IV. vi. § 15 (L.). At this day it [Egypt] is no better than a bashawship, under the Grand Signior.
1882. H. Merivale, Faucit of B., I. I. xiv. 237. Mr. Fairfield’s angry airs of Bashawship.
