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▪ I. ‖ chiaus|tʃaʊs, tʃaʊʃ|
Forms: 6–7 chaus, 7 chiause, chiaouse, 7–8 chiaush, 8 chiauss, 7–9 chiaus, chiaux, chiaoux; 9 choush.
[An imperfect adaptation of Turkish chāush (in Pers. chāwush) messenger, herald, lictor, sergeant.
The proper 16–17th c. representation of this word would have been chaush |tʃɑːʊʃ|, but app. the nearest approaches made to this were chaus (whence chouse, q.v.) and chiaush; the faults of both forms are combined in the prevailing form chiaus. The erroneous spelling with chi- seems to be borrowed from Fr., where the better 16th c. chaoux has been superseded by chiaoux (occasionally also followed by English writers). The more accurate spelling in modern French is chaouch (see Littré) and in English choush.]
A Turkish messenger, sergeant, or lictor.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 168 Our Ambassadour sate downe..and the Chaus stood before him. 1610B. Jonson Alch. i. ii. (1616) 611 What doe you thinke of me, That I am a Chiause?..doe you thinke I am a Turke? 1624Massinger Renegado iii. iv, There's your beglerbeg, or..your chiaus. 1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 18 This Chaus..made no answer. 1653Greaves Seraglio 18 The Chiaush Bashaw..and many other Chiaushes..which are imployed in Ambassies, or in ordinary messages. 1666Oxford Gaz. No. 57/3 Several Chiauses..have been returned with contempt..with their Noses and Ears cut off. 1684Scanderbeg Rediv. vi. 134 A Turkish Chiaux present in the Polish Court. 1693Mem. Cnt. Teckeley ii. 115 Tekeli receiv'd a Chiaous from the Grand Seignior. 1775Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 286 Headed by a chiaush, or the messenger of the aga. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. (1846) V. liii. 246 Chiauss, Dragoman, Domestic. 1813Byron Giaour 570 The Chiaus spake, and as he said, A bullet whistled o'er his head. 1839James Louis XIV, IV. 221 They bribed the chiaoux.
▪ II. chiaus, v.
see chouse. |
