Tchaush

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Tchaush

  1. (agriculture) Archaic spelling of Chaush (a cultivar of vinifera grape).
    • 1885, Ármin Vámbéry, The coming struggle for India: being an account of the encroachments of Russia in Central Asia, and of the difficulties sure to arise therefrom to England, London [u.a.]: Cassell, →OCLC, page 105:
      The grapes are much more palatable than the celebrated kinds coming from Bokhara, and superior even to the Tchaush grapes from the environs of Smyrna.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tchaush.