Citations:Chiauss

English citations of Chiauss

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• 1600, Rooke Churche, The historie of the troubles of Hungarie: containing the pitifull losse and ruine of that kingdome, and the warres happened there, in that time, betweene the Christians and Turkes, London: Felix Kyngston, translation of Histoire des troubles de Hongrie by Martin Fumée, →OCLC, page 87:

  Whereupon hee ſent another Chiauſs with Letters directed to all the kingdome,by which he commaunded that euery should obey and reuerence him,as being againe confirmed in all his former honours and degrees.

• 1622, Patrick Hannay, “Sheretine and Mariana”, in George Saintsbury, editor, Minor poets of the Caroline period, volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1905, →OCLC, page 649:

  The Turk Chiauss in Is'bel's favour
      sent
  Threatens the Friar, and those to
      him adhere;

• 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 5, London: Strahan and Cadell, page 486:

  The introductor and interpreter of foreign ambaſſadors were the great Chiauſs⁴⁴ and the Dragoman⁴⁵, two names of Turkiſh origin, and which are ſtill familiar to the Sublime Porte.

• 1848, John Gardner Wilkinson, Dalmatia and Montenegro: with a journey to Mostar in Herzegovia, and remarks on the Slavonic nations; the history of Dalmatia and Ragusa; […] , volume 1, London: J. Murray, →OCLC, page 237:

  The rear of the procession is brought up by the Chiauss *, who rides alone, and whose duty is to maintain order during the ceremony.
  […]
  * Ciaoos, or chówes, a Turkish title for beadle, or sergeant.