tchaouch
See also: Tchaouch
English
Etymology
Attested 1741.
Noun
tchaouch
- (historical) Obsolete spelling of chiaus.
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tchaouch.
French
Etymology
Attested 1654.
Noun
tchaouch m (plural tchaouchs or tchaouches)
- (historical) Obsolete spelling of chaouch.
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tchaouch.
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