Citations:Chaoosh

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English citations of Chaoosh

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• 1828, Robert Cotton Money, Journal of a Tour in Persia, during the years 1824 & 1825, London: Teape and Son, →OCLC, page 86:

  They are under the guidance of a Chaoosh, or Superintendant, a most consequential personage, and generally a Seid, with a mixture of Turkish and Persian in him which no doubt adds both to his servility and insolence.

• 1829, Robert Mignan, Travels in Chaldaea: including a journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, performed on foot in 1827, London: Colburn [u.a.], →OCLC, page 109:

  […] one Chaoosh, (a herald, or running footman,) in the service of Aga Minas, […]

• 1851, Bernard Burke, “Lady Hester Stanhope”, in Anecdotes of the aristocracy, and episodes of ancestral story, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: E. Churton, →OCLC, page 146:

  […] she immediately resolved upon their being put to death, for which purpose she summoned to her presence the under-bailiff, Osman Chaoosh. That dignitary made his appearance accordingly in due state, bearing in his hand the silver-headed cane, which was the emblem of office, […] and there can be little doubt that the Chaoosh fully believed in the existence of a secret sympathy between his mistress and the horses, […]