Citations:chowses
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English citations of chowses
Noun: plural of chiaus
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- 1821, George Francis Lyon, A narrative of travels in Northern Africa in the years 1818, 19, and 20 […] , London: J. Murray, →OCLC, page 313:
- We found that the Bashaw had sent chowses with eight horses, the property of his late son, to be disposed of in Fezzan for Negroes, and the purchasers were to sell them in the interior, so that they might never again be seen at Tripoli.
Verb: third-person singular simple present of chowse
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Noun: uncategorized
edit- 1860 March 31, “Punch's book of British Costumes: Chapter IX: the early Norman period”, in Punch, or The London charivari[1], volume 38, London: Punch, →ISSN, page 128:
- But whether, with true British contempt for foreign accents, they called the chaussés "chosses," or "chawsers" or "chowses," with all our wisdom we must own ourselves unable to decide.