chaoux

See also: Chaoux

English

Etymology

From French chaoux, from Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş).

Noun

chaoux

2. Obsolete spelling of chiaus. [early 19th c.]
   • 1832, George P. R. James, The string of pearls, volume 1, London: R. Bentley, →OCLC, page 236:

     […] the chaoux soon found him and brought him to the palace, having redeemed him by order of the sultan.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chaoux.

References

• "Chiaus" in A New English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893, volume 2, p. 334.