The Tchaouch-Bachi, in their presence, first breaks the wax wherewith the key-hole had been sealed up,[…]
1767 June, The gentleman's and London magazine[1], Dublin: J. Exshaw, →OCLC, page 378:
The Emir Hatch had his Tchaouch killed, the Tchaouch Kiayassi was dangerously wounded, as well as several other principal officers.
1836 May 7, “Reciprocities of the desert”, in The parterre of fiction poetry history and general literature, volume 4, number 97, London: E. Wilson, translation of original by Michel Raymond, →OCLC, page 289:
Under the conduct of an alaï-tchaouch a brigade of mamlukes searched every nook of the dismantled fortress[…]
1880, Sutherland Menzies (pseud. of Elizabeth Stone), Turkey old and new: historical, geographical and statistical, volume 1, London: W. H. Allen, →OCLC, page 255:
Transylvania was vassal and tributary very nearly on the same conditions as Moldavia; on the death of John-Sigismond Zapoly, in 1571, the investiture was given by a tchaouch to Stephen Bathory, his successor.
1994, C. A. Simpson, A History of the Habsburg Empire 1273-1700, New York: Routledge, translation of Histoire de l'empire des Habsbourg 1273-1918 by Jean Bérenger, published 2013, →ISBN, page 191:
in the presence of a tchaouch, an extraordinary envoy of the Grand Turk.
1822, Antoine Galland, edited by Édouard Gauttier d'Arc, Les mille et une nuits: contes arabes,[…], nouvelle edition, volume 4, Paris: Collin de Plancy, →OCLC, page 322:
le grand vézyr à sa gauche, et les seigneurs à sa suite, précédé par les tchiaouch, et par les principaux officiers de sa maison.
1874, Archives historiques du département de la Gironde, volume 15, Bordeaux: Charles Lefebvre, →OCLC, page 227:
Le mot chaoulx[sic], qui se prononce tchiaouch, est le nom qu’on donnait aux sous officiers du corps des janissaires et aux huissiers du tribunal de police.
1881, Charles Barbier de Meynard, “چاوش tchaouch”, in Dictionnaire turc-français: supplément aux dictionnaires publiés jusqu'à ce jour, volume 1, Paris: Ernest Leroux, →OCLC, pages 573–574:
چاوش tchaouch, (le chiaoux des anciens voyageurs français) huissier, appariteur, etc. — Sous l’ancienne administration, plusieurs fonctionnaires portaient ce nom.