nawab

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Chef Akhtar Nawab of Alta Calidad, a renowned Mexican restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, says that nuts “add a richness and deep flavor that make Mexican cuisine unique.”

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025

He launched several counter-insurgency operations in Balochistan and a famous Baloch leader, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, was killed in one of the most controversial ones.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2024

Delicious lamb patties are staged on flaky paratha alongside a trio of colorful sauces in an appetizer with a backstory about a long-ago Nawab of Lucknow.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022

With Amjad Khan as the Nawab, and Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey as the titular chess players, noblemen who are pompous in their obliviousness and impotence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2018

Even as Raynier had set forth, there was not anything here of the jewelled gorgeousness and architectural splendour popularly associated with the conventional Nawab, yet it was Mushîm Khan’s principal and favourite place of abode.

From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Mitford, Bertram