Citations:Chaoosh
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English citations of Chaoosh
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- 1828, Robert Cotton Money, Journal of a Tour in Persia, during the years 1824 & 1825, London: Teape and Son, →OCLC, page 86:
- They are under the guidance of a Chaoosh, or Superintendant, a most consequential personage, and generally a Seid, with a mixture of Turkish and Persian in him which no doubt adds both to his servility and insolence.
- 1851, Bernard Burke, “Lady Hester Stanhope”, in Anecdotes of the aristocracy, and episodes of ancestral story, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: E. Churton, →OCLC, page 146:
- […] she immediately resolved upon their being put to death, for which purpose she summoned to her presence the under-bailiff, Osman Chaoosh. That dignitary made his appearance accordingly in due state, bearing in his hand the silver-headed cane, which was the emblem of office, […] and there can be little doubt that the Chaoosh fully believed in the existence of a secret sympathy between his mistress and the horses, […]