chaoux
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See also: Chaoux
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French chaoux, from Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş).
Noun[edit]
chaoux
- Obsolete spelling of chiaus [early 19th c.]
- 1832, George P. R. James, The string of pearls, volume 1, London: R. Bentley, →OCLC, page 236:
- […] the chaoux soon found him and brought him to the palace, having redeemed him by order of the sultan.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chaoux.
References[edit]
- "Chiaus" in A New English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893, volume 2, p. 334.