Citations:Chaus

English citations of Chaus

Noun: "a chiaus"

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• 1589, Richard Hakluyt, “The second voyage of M. Laurence Aldersey, to the Cities of Alexandria, and Cayro in Aegypt. Anno 1586”, in The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nations, London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, →OCLC, page 225:

  […] the Chaus, which is the greateſt man there in authoritie, for certaine offences done in a little Chappell by the water ſide, which they ſaide one of our ſhippe had done, and imputed it to mee, becauſe I was ſeene goe into it three dayes before, came to us, and made much a doe, […]

• 1599, John F. Stanford, quoting Richard Hakluyt, edited by Charles A. M. Fennell, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation Made by Sea or Overland to the Remote & Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 Yeares, volume 2, quoted in "chiaus, chaus(e), chouse, chaoush", The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases, Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, published 1892, →OCLC, page 238:

  In the foreward [of a Caravan] go the 8 Pilots before with a Chaus... This Chaus is as the Captaine of the foreward

• 1617, John F. Stanford, quoting Fynes Moryson, edited by Charles A. M. Fennell, An itinerary: containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland & Ireland, volume 2, quoted in "chiaus, chaus(e), chouse, chaoush", The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases, Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, published 1892, →OCLC, page 238:

  a Chaus (or Pensioner) being on horseback

• 1620, John F. Stanford, quoting Nathaniel Brent, translator, Pietro Soave Polano (pseud. of Paolo Sarpi), edited by Charles A. M. Fennell, The historie of the Councel of Trent, quoted in "chiaus, chaus(e), chouse, chaoush", The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases, Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, published 1892, →OCLC, page 238:

  There being at that time in Venice one of those Nuntios that came from Constantinople about Affairs, whom they called a Chaus

• 1651, Fulgenzio Micanzio, quotee, anonymous translator, edited by James Murray, The life of the most learned Father Paul, of the Order of the Servie, quoted in "Chiaus", A New English dictionary on historical principles, volume 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1893, →OCLC, page 334:

  This Chaus .. made no answer.