Citations:Chiaus

English citations of Chiaus

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• 1620, Thomas Gainsford, Glory of England or, A true description of many excellent prerogatiues and remarkable blessings, whereby shee triumpheth ouer all the nations in the world, newly revised edition, London: E. Griffin, →OCLC, pages 201–202:

  The fift roome is ſupplyed by the Chiaus, a degree of honourable eminence and may ranke with our Barons.

• 1624, Philip Massinger, “The Renegado”, in The works of Philip Massinger, volume 2, London: T. Davies, published 1761, →OCLC, page 50:

  ¹³  Your Chiaus.
  An Officer in the Turkish Court, who performs the Duty of an Usher, and also an Ambassador to foreign Princes and States.

• 1741, John F. Stanford, quoting John Ozell, translator, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, edited by Charles A. M. Fennell, A Voyage into the Levant: perform'd by command of the late French King, volume 2, quoted in "chiaus, chaus(e), chouse, chaoush", The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases, Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, published 1892, →OCLC, page 238:

  The greater part of the Chiaus's do the Duty of Serjeants

• 1813 May, George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour: a fragment of a Turkish tale”, in Poetical works, London, New York: Oxford University Press, published 1912, →OCLC, page 250:

  The Chiaus spake, and as he said,
  A bullet whistled o'er his head;
  The foremost Tartar bites the ground !