Citations:chawushes

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English citations of chawushes

Noun: plural of chawush ("chiaus")

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• 1895, Frederick William von Herbert, The defence of Plevna, 1877: written by one who took part in it, London: Longmans, Green, →OCLC, page 145:

  Bash chawushes were running about, looking immensely important and getting into everybody's way.

• 1924, Sacheverell Sitwell, Southern Baroque art: a study of painting, architecture and music in Italy and Spain of the 17th & 18th centuries, New York: Knopf, →OCLC, page 99:

  […] and in front of the whole train march the fifteen corps of chawushes, or heralds.

• 1968, Ödön Schütz, editor, An Armeno-Kipchak chronicle on the Polish-Turkish wars in 1620-1621, Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, 11, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →OCLC, page 41:

  On Friday, 1 January 1620 there came chawushes from the Sultan of Turkey and went from Kamenets to Warsaw.