Citations:chaoush

English citations of chaoush

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• 1824, James J. Morier, The adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, 2nd edition, volume 1, London: Murray, →OCLC, page 17:

  […] the chaoush informed us, in a solemn and important manner, that we were now approaching to the places where the Turcomans generally lie in wait for caravans, […]

• 1849, Robert Curzon, Visits to monasteries of the Levant, New York: George P. Putnam, →OCLC, pages 8–9:

  He is called a chaoush. His official staff is surmounted by a silver head, formed like a Greek bishop's staff, from the two horns of which several little round bells are suspended by a silver chain. The chaoush is a personage of great authority in certain things, […]

• 1882, John F. Stanford, quoting Edmund O'Donovan, edited by Charles A. M. Fennell, The Merv Oasis: travels and adventures east of the Caspian during the years 1879-80-81 including five months' residence among the Tekkés of Merv, quoted in "chiaus, chaus(e), chouse, chaoush", The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases, Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, published 1892, →OCLC, page 238:

  Two of these [watches] had been given to the chaoush (head man) of Kaka

• 1920, Harry Coghill Watson Bishop, A Kut prisoner, London, New York: John Lane, →OCLC, page 175:

  The guard had two donkeys which carried their kit, but the chaoush would not hear of us putting our packs on them as well.