Citations:chaoux

English citations of chaoux

Noun: "chiaus" singular

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• 1800 December 31, James Leander Cathcart, “[letter to Richard O'Brien]”, in Jane Bancker Newkirk, editor, Tripoli: first war with the United States, LaPorte, IN: Herald Print, →OCLC, pages 225–226:

  […] last week an ambassador, chaoux', or courier, call him which you please, arrived with a very smart firman from the Grand Signore, […]

• 1817, Miss Tully, Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, Esq., the British consul, 2nd edition, London: H. Colburn, →OCLC, page 268:

  He took the hand of Sidy Useph's chaoux as if in a friendly manner and contrived by one squeeze to dislocate the man's little finger the excruciating pain of which deprived Sidy Useph's chaoux of all strength, […]

• 1832, George P. R. James, The string of pearls, volume 1, London: R. Bentley, →OCLC, page 236:

  […] the chaoux soon found him and brought him to the palace, having redeemed him by order of the sultan.

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• 1830, Jacques Philippe Laugier de Tassy, Histoire d'Alger et du bombardement de cette ville en 1816, Paris: Piltan, →OCLC, page 133:

  Il ordonna à un chaoux de conduire ce More à son palais, et de l’y retenir jusqu’à son retour.

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• 1936, Jacob Reznik, Le duc Joseph de Naxos: contribution à l'histoire juive de XVIe siècle, Paris: Lipschutz, →OCLC, page 89:

  Tous les auteurs sont d’accord pour dire que Dona Gracia échappa avant que le tchaouche (nom vulgaire employé pour chaoux) ne soit arrivé; […]

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